And there were still routine trips to the hospital back and forth. Then they put me on the liver transplant list. It just wasn't working anymore. I had three or four family members come up ...

People with cirrhosis are at an increased risk of liver cancer. Treatment may include surgery, a liver transplant, ablation therapy (a needle or probe is used to kill cancer cells), embolization ...

Supannee “Jill” Rassameehiran, a board-certified gastroenterologist, hepatologist and liver transplant specialist. Rassameehiran is a specialist in treating patients with conditions that ...

Doctors said the complexity of liver transplantation — due to the organ's role in metabolism, coagulation and immunity — added to the challenge. Xijing Hospital emphasized that the procedure ...

Thank you for your interest in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Program. We aim to provide comprehensive training in transplant nephrology to feed the ...

Meet the transplant team: surgeons, physicians, nurses, administrators and staff. Every 10 minutes, another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. Each day, 21 people die from ...

Toxins can also accumulate in the blood, which can result in confusion and mental slowing. For those individuals with advanced cirrhosis, the only true treatment for this disease is a liver transplant ...