Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) remains the definitive treatment for decompensated liver disease secondary to PBC. An estimated 10% to 40% of patients develop clinical, biochemical ...

The timing of OLT is important because, on the one hand, a long and only modestly impaired survival with chronic liver disease should not be preempted by death due to an unsuccessful OLT nor ...

Our transplant surgeons perform orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) at the Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Texas Children's Hospital, and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. Baylor faculty ...

in-situ and ex-vivo technical variant liver allograft preparation, single-incision laparoscopic living donor nephrectomy, intra- and extra peritoneal kidney transplantation, as well as orthotopic ...

For those with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), indications for liver transplantation include end-stage liver failure (as suggested by a MELD score >16), the onset of liver cancer, intractable symptoms ...

A liver transplant is an operation to remove your liver and replace it with a healthy liver from a donor. We have separate information if you are having part of your liver removed. Your doctor might ...