Using Digital Interventions to Support Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder and Advanced Liver Disease: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
| Autor: | Brian Suffoletto, Steve Scaglione |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention 030508 substance abuse Medicine (miscellaneous) Alcohol use disorder Toxicology Article Liver disorder 03 medical and health sciences Liver disease 0302 clinical medicine Behavior Therapy mental disorders medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Intensive care medicine Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common business.industry Liver Diseases Abstinence medicine.disease Mobile Applications Telemedicine Psychiatry and Mental health Alcoholism Anxiety medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science business Cell Phone Alcohol Abstinence |
| Zdroj: | Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. 42(7) |
| ISSN: | 1530-0277 |
| Popis: | Alcohol abstinence is the most important therapeutic goal for individuals with advanced liver disease (ALD), but commonly co-occurring alcohol use disorders (AUD) make it difficult to achieve. This challenge is perhaps best documented in the pre- and post-liver transplant period: around 30% of patients on a liver transplant list relapse with alcohol, and up to 50% can relapse in the first 10 years post-transplant. Tools to assist patients with ALD and AUD in initiating and maintaining abstinence have been limited: safe, tolerable, and effective pharmacotherapies for AUD are not widely used and treatment is often complicated by medical issues including malnourishment, physically debility, covert or overt hepatic encephalopathy, sleep and fatigue disorders, comorbid depression, and anxiety disorders....... |
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