Readmission rate of open liver surgery is 20-25% at most major cancer centers, yet the readmission rate for robotic hepatectomy was 1.6% in this retrospective analysis of data from six centers in two ...

Yuman Fong, M.D., senior author of the study, Sangiacomo Family Chair in Surgical Oncology at City of Hope and director of City of Hope’s Center for Surgical Innovation. “We have made so much progress ...

Since early 2023, it has become standard practice at UMCG to perform virtually all hour-long liver transplants during daytime. This is possible because donor livers can be preserved for much longer ...

A Cleveland Clinic study shows that patients with obesity and fatty liver-related cirrhosis who had bariatric (weight-loss) surgery significantly lowered their future risk of developing serious liver ...

A study conducted at City of Hope, a cancer research organization based in Duarte, Calif., found that robotic liver surgery can be safely conducted as an outpatient procedure. The study analyzed data ...

Children's and UAB hospitals successfully performed a split-liver transplant, marking a significant medical milestone and ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 — A multidisciplinary team at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (PPUM) has made Malaysian medical history ...

Obesity is a leading cause of fatty liver condition. Patients who had weight-loss surgery showed fewer signs of the disease progressing. By Roni Caryn Rabin One in four American adults has fatty liver ...

Address childhood obesity and diet, urge hepatologists as fatty liver, once an adult disease, is now affecting teenagers ...

Chinese scientists have performed what is thought to be the first transplant of a genetically modified pig liver segment into a person with cancer. Surgeons reported that the transplanted section of ...