Adult Liver Transplant Program
The Liver Transplant Program at Cedars-Sinai is dedicated to providing the highest level of care for those in need of liver replacement. Surgical excellence and futuristic innovation are the hallmarks of the Liver Transplant Program.
- Cedars-Sinai was among the first medical centers in the country to perform living donor liver transplants (1999)
- New refinements in medical and surgical transplant techniques and procedures developed here are continuously adopted by other hospitals nationally and internationally
- Insights gained through the deep experience of our hepatologists have repeatedly resulted in enhancements to surgical procedures
- Surgery patients spend an average of only seven days in the hospital
- Cedars-Sinai was one of the first facilities to perform partial-liver transplants
- Specialists here pioneered the concept of viewing transplantation as a therapy within therapies, rather than as a service physically and psychologically separate from non-transplant treatments. Higher quality of patient care is achieved when all services are part of a continuum.
On an ongoing basis, Cedars-Sinai monitors and reports on the quality of care given to patients. Cedars-Sinai regularly reports its statistics regarding liver transplant survival rates.
We offer a complete spectrum of state-of-the-art procedures for liver transplantation, including:
- Cadaver-donated liver transplantation (liver of a recently deceased individual replaces the patient's failed liver)
- Living-donor transplantation (a healthy, medically compatible relative or friend donates a segment of his or her liver to the patient)
- Living-donor liver transplants from both related and unrelated compassionate donors
- Islet transplantation (still in the experimental stage) helps treat people who have Type I diabetes. Insulin-producing cells (islets) are taken from a donor and injected into a vein that moves blood to the liver.
- Opportunities to participate in state-of-the-art clinical trials
