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 ...

If you’ve received a liver cancer diagnosis, your treatment options depend on several factors. Surgery is sometimes but not always the best treatment option. Your doctor will stage your cancer ...

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 ...

Treating liver cancer and liver metastases — cancer that has spread to the liver from elsewhere in the body — is challenging. Most patients are not candidates for surgery because there are many tumors ...

Previous reports have also described the safety of resecting segments 7 and 8. However, they drew conclusions on smaller cohorts than our present study, and some included segments 1, 4a, 7, and 8, ...

Partial liver donation through the living liver donor program at BIDMC in Boston, MA, can help a loved one in need, and perhaps save their life.

Recent medical research has uncovered a significant connection between obesity and liver health, with excess weight being a primary contributor to various liver conditions. This relationship has led ...

Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) successfully performed the hospital's first-ever heart and liver dual ...

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 liver shrinking diet is low in calories, carbohydrates, and fats. A doctor may recommend this diet if you’re undergoing weight loss (bariatric) surgery. Your liver makes up about 2% of your body ...

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 ...