Dr. Seung Duk Lee, interim surgical director of liver transplant, performed the nation’s first fully robotic living donor liver transplant.

Kimberly Toole received a liver transplant last year at Tampa General Hospital. She said her recovery was complicated, but ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

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 ...

Kimberly Toole received a liver transplant last year at Tampa General Hospital. She said her recovery was complicated, but ...

In the UK, there are more than 11,000 deaths due to liver disease each year. Around 700 people are currently on the waiting list for a transplant, and the average wait is three to four months.

“This is the world’s first case of a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a brain-dead human. “The ultimate goal of the experiment was not to achieve a standard liver ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human recipient. The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to ...

“This surgery was really successful.” Writing in the journal Nature, he added: “Auxiliary liver transplantation is an ideal bridge therapy for people with liver failure, because it is not ...

Colorectal cancer is the fourth-most-common cancer in the U.S. and the second deadliest. One in 5 patients is diagnosed with ...

But Wang pointed to a potential next step in xenotransplantation — learning to transplant pig livers. His team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature that a pig liver transplanted into a brain ...