Transplant Hepatology

The Digestive Health Center offers a multidisciplinary approach to transplant hepatology.

Conditions Treated

• Acute liver failure
• Alcoholic liver disease
• Alpha-one antitrypsin deficiency
• Ascites
• Autoimmune cholangitis
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Benign liver tumors
• Cirrhosis
• Drug-induced liver injury
• Fatty liver disease
• Gastroesophageal varices
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Hepatic encephalopathy
• Hepatorenal syndrome
• Hereditary hemochromatosis
• Malignant liver tumors
• NASH
• Polycystic liver disease
• Portal hypertension
• Portal vein thrombosis
• Primary biliary cirrhosis
• Primary sclerosing cholangitis
• Secondary sclerosing cholangitis
• Vascular disorders of the liver
• Wilson's disease

Testing Options

• Blood testing assessment of liver function and for markers of chronic liver disease
• CT abdomen with multiphasic contrast
• Liver biopsy
• MR abdomen with MRCP, elstography, or multiphasic contrast
• Ultrasound with doppler or elastography

Treatment Options

• Banding of esophageal varices
• Interventional radiology treatment of liver tumors
• Medications:
  • Anticholelithics
  • Anti-pruritics
  • Antiviral treatments
  • Cathartics
  • Colloid infusions
  • Immunomodulators
  • Infused diuretics
  • Non-selective beta blockers
  • Oral diuretics
  • Steroids
• Surgical liver resection and transplantation
• Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)