Liver transplant surgery involves replacing an unhealthy liver with a healthy one from a living or deceased donor. Recovery can take up to 1 year, and 5-year survival rates can be as high as 75%. A ...

UAB surgeons have completed Alabama’s first living-donor liver transplant, expanding lifesaving options for patients facing ...

Ernest House needed a liver transplant. But a heart condition was keeping him off the transplant list. “I would have died,” he says. “There's no doubt about that. My body was failing.” A former ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Right now, patients with obesity and cirrhosis ...

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver ...

A liver transplant surgery is a procedure to remove your liver and replace it with a healthy liver. It’s done when your liver stops working properly due to disease or injury. Most liver transplants ...

Major approaches of NVVB procedure in ELRA. NVVB: nonuse of veno-venous bypass; ELRA: ex-situ liver resection and autotransplantation. In the past, patients with locally advanced liver tumors or ...

WASHINGTON, DC — For individuals with both metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and obesity, bariatric surgery can prevent liver disease progression to the point where ...

Recent research suggests that a new approach could help even patients with advanced forms of fatty liver disease. By Nina Agrawal Nearly four in 10 American adults are estimated to have a liver ...

The treatment plan for liver cancer can vary depending on the stage, size, and location of the tumor. Common options include surgery, ablation, cryotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted drug therapy.

Obesity is a leading cause of fatty liver condition. Patients who had weight-loss surgery showed fewer signs of the disease progressing. By Roni Caryn Rabin One in four American adults has fatty liver ...