The clinical team at the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation (CLDT) at NYPH and Columbia University reports that living donor liver transplants produce a significantly higher 1 year and three year survival rate than decesased donor transplants. Living donor transplant recipient survival rates exceed 90% for living donors. By contrast, deceased donor one year [...]
Filed under Liver Disease - medical developments, Liver Disease in the news by on Jun 28th, 2010. Comment. 
The New York Daily News recently had a great write-up about liver disease and the current shortage of livers available for liver transplants. The article highlighted the work of Dr. Sander Florman, who is a surgeon specializing in abdominal and hepatobiliary surgery. He discusses how the liver is the only organ that can regenerate itself [...]
Filed under Liver Disease in the news by on Feb 22nd, 2010. Comment.