Table 1.

Psychosocial evaluation criteria of liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Criteria A

Abstinence period lasting at least 6 mo

An oath of the abstinence from alcoholic drinking for the future

Patients with alcoholic liver disease are needed to fulfill the criteria A.

Criteria B

No presence of psychiatric comorbidity except alcohol-related mental disease

A dherence of medical treatment

Understanding and agreement of transplant and a support by the family

Being at work or ready to work

The high-risk alcoholism relapse scale can be scored 0, 1, or 2

Criteria C

Re-evaluation one month later in case who is difficult to evaluate risk of alcohol use relapse in the initial interview