11.   The risk of postoperative infections in patients in which a diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease had not been established preoperatively had also been shown to be high.

12.   This is the first reported study to show convincingly the presence of functional hyposplenism in patients with alcoholic liver disease.

13.   In contrast, selected patients with alcoholic liver disease frequently fare well and are likely to represent an increasing population of transplant candidates.

14.   In alcoholic liver disease, transplant assessment was considered appropriate in the case of sustained abstinence following medical advice.

15.   The OPCS diagnoses for the three patients with untraced records were cholangitis, alcoholic liver disease, and pancreatic carcinoma with hepatorenal syndrome.

16.   The only significant change in criteria for transplantion during the study period was the greater acceptance of alcoholic liver disease as an indication.

17.   None of the patients with alcoholic liver disease who were not referred fulfilled the current criteria, however, since they were not abstinent.

18.   OPCS data recording alcoholic liver disease seem to be very inaccurate.

19.   It seems likely that there is a similar under recording of alcoholic liver disease in the United Kingdom as a whole.

20.   OPCS data have been shown to represent inaccurately the distribution of alcoholic liver disease.