Young alcoholics seek new liver

A young man of 19 years to the liver destroyed by alcohol dying in London after being denied a transplant.

A young man of 19 years to the liver destroyed by alcohol dying in London after being denied a transplant. Another 22 died in July, following a refusal. Two British trivia questions about the selection of transplant candidates, but also the effects of the "bun Express."

"I have two weeks to save the life of my son," said BBC News Brian Anderson, who, feeling abandoned by the doctors, now on justice. His son Gareth, 19, was hospitalized in critical condition after drinking 30canettes beer in one evening. Doctors feared he would not survive more than two weeks.

Last week, the young man was transferred from Belfast to London. His liver is in a desperate state, he would need a transplant, but medical officials refused to put on the waiting list. Reason: the rule that can not benefit from a liver that the nine patients who showed abstinence for six months.

If Gareth dies, it will be a summer, the second young Briton to die in similar circumstances. Died July 20 in London, alcoholic hepatitis, Gary Reinbach, 22, and alcohol consumption since its 13 years. Despite the entreaties of his mother who called him "a second chance," the doctors had refused transplantation.

What would have happened to these two young men if they had been hospitalized in Switzerland? Can we destroy his liver into a "bun Express"? Such cases present themselves to us? Questions to Philippe Morel, head of the University Centre Romand surgical transplantation.