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.

Utah mom gets a liver transplant from her son in a first-of-its-kind surgery at Intermountain Medical Center Murray • A Utah mom is hepatitis-free for the first time in 27 years, thanks to a live ...

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 ...

The first robotic liver resection was performed at the Minsk Scientific and Practical Centre for Surgery, Transplantation and ...

The condition of Patrolman Edward C. Callahan, 36, father of two, was listed as critical even before the famed neurosurgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital had fully assessed the damage to his ...

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 ...

Kelsey Adams is more committed than ever to becoming a nurse after recently being one of the first children in the country to benefit from a combination of medical procedures at Children’s Healthcare ...

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 ...

Liver tumors died off in a third of patients enrolled in a study who received immunotherapy treatment before surgery, according to Mount Sinai researchers in New York City. The study was recently ...

Resection of liver metastases is considered the only treatment with curative potential for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer to the liver (CRLM). However, only a minority of patients with ...