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

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The doctors informed her that she would be unable to receive a liver transplant because she was an alcoholic, which had caused cirrhosis of the liver. They found alcohol in her urine. Leland was flabbergasted. She tried to assure the transplant team that she hadn’t had anything to drink that day, but they wouldn’t believe her.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.