Woman Denied Liver Transplant Due to Alcoholism—but She Hadn’t Had a Drop to Drink

New Diagnosis

They found that Leland’s urine was missing two essential metabolites that would have been present had she been drinking. After doing some research, his team determined that Leland suffered from a previously unknown medical condition: auto-brewery syndrome, or “bladder fermentation syndrome.”

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.