Liver Disease and Transplantation

The Living Donor Liver Transplant program at New York Presbyterian Hospital is one of the largest living donor liver programs in North America.

There are many new things a person experiences after liver transplantation. Before you leave the hospital, your team will provide all the instructions you and your family will need in caring for the "new" you. Three months after the operation, most patients have recovered fully, returned to work, and are enjoying active lives. Our goal is to provide expert care and excellent follow-up, working with your primary care physician, to make the extent and quality of your life appreciably better than before. We urge you and your local doctor to keep in touch with the CLDT to let us partner in your ongoing care.

With nationally and internationally recognized authorities in established modalities as well as experimental techniques, the treatment team for hepatocellular carcinoma and hilar cholangiocarcinoma at the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is setting new standards for patient outcomes—including long-term survival—in resection, adjuvant therapies, and transplantation.

Cirrhosis, scarring of the liver caused by injury over a period of time, is a consequence of chronic hepatitis, excessive alcohol use, and other less common causes including infections, drug toxins, and inherited diseases.

Meaning literally inflammation of the liver, hepatitis refers to a group of conditions, most of which are caused by one of many viruses. Hepatitis can also be inherited (congenital hepatitis) or brought on by excess alcohol consumption.