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 ...

Readmission rate of open liver surgery is 20-25% at most major cancer centers, yet the readmission rate for robotic hepatectomy was 1.6% in this retrospective analysis of data from six centers in two ...

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 ...

Researchers are developing functional, patient-specific livers using 3D bioprinting and stem cell technology to eliminate the ...

A local hospital is using new technology to remove liver cancer without invasive surgery. It’s a word that no one ever wants ...

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 ...

Scientists from the UK and other European countries have developed a 'virtual liver' in a bid to help doctors evaluate patients for cancer surgery. The work was done in a project called ...

Chinese doctors at a hospital in Shanghai recently performed a successful liver transplant on a six-month-old infant boy from Mongolia suffering from biliary atresia, with his father being a liver ...