April 7, 2021
When Jean Kane, was 16 years old, she wasn’t surprised to have been diagnosed with polycystic liver and kidney disease—she’d seen her mother experience it. But when Jean was 45, the cysts grew dramatically.
November 4, 2020
What do patients with liver disease need to know about their risk of contracting the virus that causes COVID-19, and about the continuity of care at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ? Emily Schonfeld, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Weill Cornell Medical Center, and transplant hepatologist Arun Jesudian, MD, explain what patients with liver disease need
October 27, 2020
Nick Oprish recalls the precise date--May 1, 2019--when he and his wife, Melissa, learned that the chest pains he’d been experiencing were due to aggressive liver cancer.
February 26, 2018
Dr. Benjamin Samstein, the Chief of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, was recently featured in an article about laparoscopic liver transplantation in the Wall Street Journal.
The procedure is a less invasive way to perform liver transplantation, and many believe more expanding access to this procedure could encourage more donors to step forward.... Read More
November 20, 2017
When Peter McKay and his husband, Chris, brought home their daughter from the hospital, they were overjoyed.But two months after bringing Darcy to their Crown Heights apartment, she began to show signs of liver failure. Peter and Chris soon learned that their baby, Darcy, had a rare genetic disease called progressive intrahepatic cholestasis type 2, or PFIC2, which prevents liver cells from properly flushing out bile and forcing it into the bloodstream instead. If left untreated, doctors told... Read More
