People who used lipophilic (fat-soluble) statins like atorvastatin and simvastatin had the greatest outcomes and ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Colorectal cancer is one of the most treatable cancers, especially when detected early. For those in advanced stages, ...

Our team gives second opinions as well. When colon cancer spreads to the liver from another part of the body, doctors have many ways to treat it. Hepatic artery infusion (HAI) therapy is a focused ...

Seoul National University Hospital has surpassed 1,500 cases of radiation embolization, achieving the highest number of procedures in Asia. Starting with the first radiation embolization in 2011, the ...

AdventHealth Tampa is the first in the Tampa Bay area to offer a powerful new pump-based treatment option for colorectal ...

Hepatic fibrosis is a reversible wound healing response characterized by accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM), or "scar," that follows chronic but not self-limited liver disease. The ECM ...

Two blood vessels supply your liver with blood. They are the hepatic artery and the hepatic portal vein. Just before it reaches the liver, the blood in the portal vein comes through the gut (digestive ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...