A living donor liver transplant involves removing a section ... "I’ve been a bit knocked, but pretty much back to normal now. "The scar is big but I wear it with pride knowing what I did.” ...

Prolonged alcohol use can scar the liver, but treatment and staying alcohol-free may help prevent life-threatening problems.

This scarring process doesn’t happen overnight ... Advanced cases may eventually require liver transplantation, though the waiting list far exceeds available organs—making prevention and ...

A surgical team at Virginia Commonwealth University recently performed the first fully robotic liver transplantation in the ...

Cirrhosis progresses in stages, from a compensated phase with few symptoms to a decompensated phase with serious ...

A liver transplant may be the only remaining treatment option for advanced scarring or liver failure. A liver transplant involves removing an injured or diseased liver and replacing it with a ...

But it takes a beating every day. Eventually, its tissues scar, and if the organ fails, a liver transplant is the only solution. Donor livers are hard to come by, however. This week, a Chinese team ...

So the operation wouldn't remove all of the cancer. You might not be able to have a liver transplant if you have severe scarring of the liver (cirrhosis). Your specialist decides whether you are well ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan Health Transplant Center broke the state’s record for completing the most liver ...