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 ...

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 ...

UAB surgeons have completed Alabama’s first living-donor liver transplant, expanding lifesaving options for patients facing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following his surgery, Kosar said he was “planned and prepared” for his recovery road ahead and that he hasn’t “felt this good in years,” he told cleveland.com’s Terry Pluto. “[I’m] really excited to ...