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Doctor Jude Oben had grim news for a patient last week. The liver expert told the 60-year-old man that he had cirrhosis – for the second time in his life. 裘德·奥本医生是一位肝脏病专家，上周他带给一位60岁的病人一个坏消息——他又一次患上了肝硬化。这已经是这位病人第二次得这种疾病了。 Only four years ago Oben's patient had required a liver transplant after his first bout of cirrhosis, a condition he had contracted because he was obese. "Unfortunately my patient continued to overeat and remained obese," said Oben, a hepatologist based at the Royal Free and St Thomas' hospitals in London. "As a result, he contracted cirrhosis again. Sadly, I had to tell him that this time it was very unlikely he would be given another liver." 四年前他为这位患者进行了肝移植手术，那是这位患者首次因肥胖患肝硬化。“不幸的是，我的这位病人继续暴饮暴食并保持肥胖状态，”在英国皇家自由医院和圣托马斯医院工作的肝脏病专家奥本说道。“因此，他再一次感染肝硬化疾病。不幸的是，我只能告诉他这一次他可能不会再得到另一个肝脏了。” | 
