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 ...

producing bile and liver proteins inside the brain-dead transplant recipient, researchers report March 26 in Nature. Such a transplant could one day buy time for people waiting on the liver ...

In the past year, doctors have performed history-making transplants, placing genetically modified pig kidneys and pig hearts into patients. Now, a group of doctors and scientists in China report ...

Doctors said the complexity of liver transplantation — due to the organ's role in metabolism, coagulation and immunity — added to the challenge. Xijing Hospital emphasized that the procedure ...

known as split liver transplantation, could reduce the number of deaths caused by liver failure. Here’s a real-life illustration (the names have been changed to protect privacy): Jacob was born ...

“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 ...

A source told NBC New York that Trachtenberg, 39, had recently received a liver transplant. It is not known whether she suffered complications from that surgery. Three doctors who research or ...

"Liver transplant is expensive and a big operation. I always say it's 3 in 1 — you remove the sick liver, you get the one from the healthy donor, and then you put it in. It's also resource ...

Amy Feldman, the medical director of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program at Children's Hospital Colorado. "On average, our children only have to wait about 50 days for a liver transplant," she ...

He was off the radar for a bit, and then we learned he had a liver transplant. After that, he had an episode of hepatic encephalopathy, a brain disorder caused by liver dysfunction. It seems the ...