Pediatric liver transplants at Yale Medicine are extremely safe and successful, and can cure many cases of childhood liver failure.
Kidney failure in children can be caused by birth defects and genetic conditions; a kidney transplant can be safe and effective treatment.
When the liver fails, due to cancer and other illnesses, a transplant from a deceased or living donor can offer effective treatment.
Kidney transplants offer many benefits over dialysis, including freedom to travel, fewer dietary restrictions and, most importantly, improved survival.
Organ transplants, including heart, liver, kidney and pancreas, require highly specialized anesthesiology skills.
Alcohol-related liver disease is liver damage caused by excessive consumption of alcohol. Learn about symptoms and treatment.
For people with Wilson disease, the body is unable to properly metabolize copper and it builds up to dangerous levels.
A type of cancer that starts in the liver and can cause stomach pain and swelling and jaundice.
A disease in which damage to the kidneys renders them unable to properly filter waste and toxins from the blood.
Polycystic kidney disease causes fluid-filled sacs called cysts to grow in the kidneys, which eventually harm the organs' function.