Early treatment and healthy lifestyle changes can help the liver heal and prevent further damage. Complete abstinence from ...

The course of cirrhosis is extremely variable from patient to patient due to several factors, including hepatic synthetic function (or “hepatic reserve”), the cause of cirrhosis, the possibility of ...

Alcoholic cirrhosis is the severe, final stage of alcohol-associated liver disease, resulting from long-term heavy alcohol consumption. The disease involves permanent scarring of the liver, which ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...