The American Liver Foundation and UPMC Partner to Raise Awareness of Living-Donor Liver Transplants
The American Liver Foundation (ALF), in partnership with the University [...]
UPMC and VA Pittsburgh Partner to Perform VA’s First Living-Donor Living Transplant
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) and UPMC partnered to perform [...]
Lab-Grown Miniature Human Livers Successfully Transplanted in Rats
Using skin cells from human volunteers, researchers at the University [...]
Mimicking Cancer to Avoid Transplant Rejection
Inspired by a tactic cancer cells use to evade the [...]
UPMC Celebrates 500th Adult Living-Donor Liver Transplant
Celebrating another milestone in its pioneering role in liver transplantation, [...]
Heart Transplants from Donors with Hepatitis C May Be Safe
Transplants from donors with hepatitis C may be a safe [...]
McGowan Institute’s Pediatric VAD Technology, PediaFlow, to One Day Help the Smallest of Heart Transplant Candidates
The recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper article by Jill Daly highlights [...]
In the US, Children Die Waiting for a Liver Transplant — There Is a Better Way
By Dr. George V. Mazariegos, Opinion Contributor, The Hill “Children [...]
New Study Highlights Advantages of Living-Liver Donation
Living-donor liver transplant offers numerous advantages over deceased-donor transplant, including [...]
Using Hep C Infected Organs in Heart Transplant Operations
Hepatitis C is a liver disease caused by the [...]