A study conducted at City of Hope, a cancer research organization based in Duarte, Calif., found that robotic liver surgery can be safely conducted as an outpatient procedure. The study analyzed data ...

Resection of tumors in the caudate lobe (a deep, hard-to-reach part of the liver) is recognized as one of the most ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver damage ...

A year after her breast cancer diagnosis, Cheryl Colehour had been expecting to hear that she was cancer-free. Instead, she's being wheeled in for surgery again. They said well, there s something on ...

The number of individuals registered and waiting for a liver transplant is near 11,000. Matching a patient in need of an organ transplant with a healthy liver is critical, but an innovative surgical ...

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 ...

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 ...

A patient in China with hepatocellular carcinoma survived 171 days following xenotransplantation with a genetically modified ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...