An Alabama grandmother who was the first patient to receive a new kind of genetically modified pig kidney more than two months ago is now the longest surviving recipient of a pig organ.

Most animal, plant and fungal cells contain organelles called mitochondria. These descendants of a primordial bacterial ...

A dietary supplement used to build muscle – or prevent muscle loss as a result of ageing or illness – is to be trialled as a potential treatment for chronic liver disease.

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;4(5):236-237. Now that the idea that hepatic fibrosis is reversible is taking root, many clinicians are beginning to ask why, if fibrosis is ...

“For many, this condition evolves into deadly liver cancer or complete liver failure, often requiring a transplant ... Evolution from Senescent MASH Hepatocytes” Lead Institution: University ...

A young woman is cancer-free after undergoing the UK’s first ever liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer. Bianca Perea, a 32-year-old trainee lawyer from Manchester, was told by doctors her ...

1 Research Department, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA, United States 2 Organ Donation Services, New England Donor Services, Waltham, MA, United States Vascularized composite allograft ...

aService d'hépato-gastroentérologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels 1200, Belgium bLaboratory of Hepatogastroenterology, Institut de recherche ...

I had HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) which is the most common type of primary liver cancer, so called because the cancer develops from the main liver cells called hepatocytes. It’s more common ...

Ian Parker is clear of liver cancer thanks to a liver transplant in 2019. - Asadour Guzelian ...

Participants had stage 0-3 fibrosis, a histological nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) activity score ≥ 3, and a score ≥ 1 for both lobular inflammation and hepatocyte ballooning.

TO BRING YOU THE REST OF THIS STORY. ALAINA WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BILIARY ATRESIA SHORTLY AFTER BIRTH AND WITHOUT A LIVER TRANSPLANT. DOCTORS DIDN’T GIVE HER MUCH CHANCE AT SURVIVAL. BUT ONE OF YOU ...