In a video she posted Friday on Instagram, the 34-year-old comedian revealed that a recent PET scan detected "spots on my liver that were a little suspicious." After undergoing another biopsy ...

First gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a brain-dead person In a medical first, a research team in China has successfully stitched a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead patient ...

Fontan circulation (FC) in complex congenital heart disease is characterized by altered hemodynamics and associated with Fontan‐associated liver disease. Patients with FC may exhibit abnormalities in ...

And the same research team also reported an experiment implanting a pig liver into a brain-dead person. Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike in hopes of ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person ... the transplant of animal organs into humans — and division chief of abdominal transplantation in the Integrated Department of Surgery ...

This integrated trio of care wasn’t always available to patients with liver disease, says Courtney Sherman, MD, hepatologist and associate professor at UC San Francisco. HALT founders Courtney Sherman ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health has introduced the nation’s first robotic living donor liver transplant at the university’s transplant center ...

“We now wait.” Katie added that her doctor informed her that she believes the spots on her liver are cancerous, which would put her at a stage 4 diagnosis. “She seemed to be leaning more on ...