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When a patient presents with end stage liver disease or liver failure he or she may be considered for a liver transplantation. The first step in this is often a rigorous assessment and being placed on a waiting list.

Satellite livers could provide booster function for patients awaiting transplants

More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant, but there are not enough donated organs for all of those patients.

4 Mar 2026

Children’s Hospital Colorado completes its first heart and liver dual transplant

Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) successfully performed the hospital's first-ever heart and liver dual organ transplant, with support from dozens of team members across 25 different multidisciplinary care teams.

19 Dec 2025

ECG-based AI model doubles early liver disease diagnoses

As rates of obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea increase, cases of advanced chronic liver disease and resulting liver scarring or cirrhosis also are rising. Patients often are diagnosed based on symptoms, such as gastrointestinal bleeding, fluid retention or jaundice, which happen when liver disease has progressed to a late stage.

17 Dec 2025

RFK Jr. wants to delay the hepatitis B vaccine. Here’s what parents need to know.

Working out of a tribal-owned hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian McMahon has spent decades treating the long shadow of hepatitis B. Before a vaccine became available in the 1980s, he saw the virus claim young lives in western Alaskan communities with stunning speed.

2 Dec 2025

Laparoscopic biliary atresia surgery in newborns reduces blood loss, improves jaundice recovery

Nagoya University researchers and their collaborators have found that minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery significantly reduces blood loss and improves jaundice recovery compared to traditional open surgery for treating biliary atresia-a serious liver condition in newborns.

25 Nov 2025

Researchers uncover a new way to understand how children fare after liver transplantation

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered a new way to understand how children fare after liver transplantation: by focusing not on medical test results, but on how differently parents and children perceive the child's well-being.

24 Nov 2025

New prognostic tool can predict transplant needs in drug-induced liver injury patients

A newly developed tool, called the DILI-Inpt prognostic score, can predict patients with drug-induced liver injury who are unlikely to survive without a liver transplant.

19 Nov 2025

Machine learning model boosts success of liver transplants from circulatory death donors

There are more candidates on the waitlist for a liver transplant than there are available organs, yet about half the time a match is found with a donor who dies after cardiac arrest following the removal of life support, the transplant must be canceled.

13 Nov 2025

Common chemical tetrachloroethylene may be harmful to the liver

Liver disease is usually caused by one of three factors: alcohol consumption, fat buildup in the liver linked to obesity, diabetes and high cholesterol, or hepatitis B and C.

23 Oct 2025

NYU Langone sets the standard for organ transplant care

The NYU Langone Transplant Institute is the state's top-quality program for liver and kidney transplantation and has some of the fastest heart and lung transplant rates in the nation, according to the latest national data.

16 Oct 2025

Immune system found to be more mobile and flexible than previously thought

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that some natural killer cells, NK cells, temporarily reside in our organs and then leave them via the lymphatic system.

14 Oct 2025

Study reports the world's first genetically engineered pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation

An important new study in the Journal of Hepatology, published by Elsevier, reports the world's first auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient.

9 Oct 2025

Categorizing the risk factors for portal vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosis

Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a critical complication in liver cirrhosis (LC), significantly worsening portal hypertension and accelerating the progression to decompensation.

30 Sep 2025

Simple blood analysis can predict the risk of developing severe liver disease

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in the scientific journal The BMJ, shows how a simple blood analysis can predict the risk of developing severe liver disease.

29 Sep 2025

UCLA researchers identify proteins that guard the liver against damage during transplantation

In a mouse model of liver transplantation, UCLA researchers have identified proteins that act as "protective switches" guarding the liver against damage occurring when blood supply is restored during transplantation, a process known as ischemia-reperfusion injury.

23 Sep 2025

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Satellite livers could provide booster function for patients awaiting transplants

Children’s Hospital Colorado completes its first heart and liver dual transplant

ECG-based AI model doubles early liver disease diagnoses

RFK Jr. wants to delay the hepatitis B vaccine. Here’s what parents need to know.

Laparoscopic biliary atresia surgery in newborns reduces blood loss, improves jaundice recovery

Researchers uncover a new way to understand how children fare after liver transplantation

New prognostic tool can predict transplant needs in drug-induced liver injury patients

Machine learning model boosts success of liver transplants from circulatory death donors

Common chemical tetrachloroethylene may be harmful to the liver

NYU Langone sets the standard for organ transplant care

Immune system found to be more mobile and flexible than previously thought

Study reports the world's first genetically engineered pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation

Categorizing the risk factors for portal vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosis

Simple blood analysis can predict the risk of developing severe liver disease

UCLA researchers identify proteins that guard the liver against damage during transplantation

Breakthroughs in diagnosis and therapy for transthyretin amyloidosis

Microbial DNA signature in the blood differentiates primary liver cancer from metastatic colorectal cancer

AI tool helps doctors predict hospital death risk in cirrhosis patients

Heavy drinking now poses greater liver disease risk than two decades ago

Alcoholic liver disease exacerbates HBV reactivation and worsens outcomes in liver transplant recipients

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