Liver Health Center

Common Disorders

• Liver metastases
• Liver transplant
• Portacaval shunt
• Liver disease
• Hepatic ischemia
• Hepatocerebral degeneration
• Liver disease - resources
• Cirrhosis
• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Liver biopsy
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Liver - Health News

• New Model Allows Testing of Hepatitis C Treatments
  Culture lets scientists infect cells with virus from the blood of infected patients
  
• Researchers Find Link Between Organ Transplants, Cancer
  Immune-suppressing drugs may trigger protein that boosts tumor growth, study finds
  
• Combo Therapy Makes More Kidney Transplants Possible
  80% of patients receiving rituximab able to get new organ, and treatment cost less
  
• Melanoma Drug Boosts Recurrence-Free Survival
  Pegylated inteferon cut risk 15% but did not reduce overall mortality rates
  
• A Blood Marker Could Spot Diabetes Risk
  Higher levels of fetuin-A were linked to later disease development, study found
  
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Related Videos

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  HIV, Hepatitis C, the Avian flu and the Ebola Virus may have all met their match! This new device may be able to clean these dangerous toxins out of patients' blood
  
• High Tech Liver Surgery
  
  Two new, high-tech tools are improving the outcome and speeding recovery for liver cancer patients
  
• Heart Transplant Breakthrough
  
  A new test makes life easier for heart transplant patients.
  
  
• Help for Hepatitis C
  
  A new drug for hepatitis C proves to be just what patients who have failed other treatments have been waiting for.
  
  
• Custom-built Organs
  
  Medicine's next big thing: doctors are growing organs in the lab. Soon, they could even be printing them. Watch this video to learn about this cutting-edge technology.
  
  
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Related Animations

• Hepatitis
  The Hepatitis C virus is a blood-borne pathogen that primarily affects the liver. The liver is a large reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity. This video animation shows how the Hepatitis C virus spreads through the Liver.