January 25, 2022
It’s in the organ’s name — you can’t live without a liver. For patients in need of a liver transplant — whether it be from acute or chronic liver failure,…
Department of Surgery, +3 more
The first things Christina Hall noticed were her yellow eyes. Typically, Christina’s eyes are a deep brown. But one morning in late August 2020, she awoke to…
March 23, 2021
If surgery were gymnastics, a triple-organ transplant would be a feat worthy of the Olympics. It has everything: Complex and intricate procedure? Check.…
Department of Surgery, +4 more
December 21, 2020
It’s a potential killer. And many of the people who are most susceptible to the disease don’t even know it exists. Physicians remain uncertain of its…
College of Medicine, +2 more
November 20, 2020
Pushed by the obesity epidemic, a rising number of Americans are being diagnosed with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that can lead to liver…
College of Medicine, Diabetes Institute, +2 more
September 1, 2020
Allen Korson went from a kidney stone ailment to needing a multiorgan transplant, both lungs and a liver, one of the rarest procedures performed in the United…
Department of Surgery, +2 more
Today, there are over 110,000 people nationwide on the organ transplant waiting list hoping for a life-extending donation.
If the best gift of all is life, then the second-best must be love. Jessica Scoggins and Daniel Sullivan, both transplant recipients, met through their…
Valentine’s Day is a time for loving, sharing and caring. We know what this means in the romantic sense, but what if there were a more meaningful way to…
Clinicians frequently overlook nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in their patients who have Type 2 diabetes. Yet it is estimated that approximately 70% of obese…
