How do you decide between urgent early liver transplant listing versus a time-limited “watchful waiting” strategy in critically ill severe alcohol-associated hepatitis with some signs of potential hepatic recovery?

Often, these decisions are very difficult to make and have to be individualized per patient. Of course, if a patient is responding biochemically to a course of corticosteroids, transplantation will be deferred (non-response or contraindication to steroids is usually a component of the evaluation of ...