CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Clinic has achieved another medical advancement by successfully performing the Midwest’s first purely laparoscopic living donor surgery for liver transplantation in an adult.

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 ...

Children's and UAB hospitals successfully performed a split-liver transplant, marking a significant medical milestone and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...