Transplantation and Surgery

Check out the first major trial of early LT in patients with AH

A 45-year-old female underwent colonoscopy for iron deficiency and chronic diarrhea with associated flushing and was found to have an erythematous region in her terminal ileum. Biopsies revealed a...

Adam and Alex talk with Dr. David Goldberg about policies governing organ transplantation.

Can liver transplantation be an effective therapy for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma?

Alex has an illuminating discussion regarding disparities within the field of liver transplantation with Dr. Lauren Nephew.

In a very special installment of the Why Series, our adult and pediatric teams join forces to answer the question of how living donor liver transplantation came about in the United States. Read on!

In Part 1 of this series, we reviewed what came BEFORE the MELD score—Child-Turcotte-Pugh classification. We additionally discussed the history behind MELD, what is included in its calculation and why...

A 66-year-old male with a past medical history of primary biliary cholangitis s/p orthotopic liver transplant 10 months ago, ESRD s/p kidney transplant 2 months ago, presents with shortness of breath...

The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (or MELD) score is used to determine patient priority for liver transplantation. But have you ever wondered why? Let us review the history and the literature to...