Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Archive Liver Transplant Research, Liver Transplant, Hepatology Research
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2026
July
01,
2026
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In one of the most comprehensive studies of coffee and liver health to date, Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators linked higher coffee consumption with lower risk of cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver-related death. The findings, …
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May
20,
2026
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Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators have identified molecular mechanisms that drive inflammation in alcohol-associated liver disease. Their preclinical discoveries could one day provide targets for therapies to treat the …
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February
26,
2026
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America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai completed 677 solid organ transplants in 2025, setting several new institutional records in liver and lung transplant.Irene Kim, MD, …
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2025
November
13,
2025
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A new Cedars-Sinai Cancer study shows that patients with advanced liver cancer who receive immunotherapy to shrink their tumors have improved outcomes after liver transplant or tumor removal.The study, published in the journal Liver Cancer, found …
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November
04,
2025
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America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai hepatology experts are available for media interviews throughout the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases’ annual Liver Meeting in Washington, D.C., Nov. 7-11, 2025.Investigators and clinicians will present research, …
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April
24,
2025
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Cedars-Sinai is a leading transplant center, with patient outcomes that consistently meet or exceed national averages. One continuing challenge, however, is the need to suppress transplant patients’ immune systems to prevent their bodies from …
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February
28,
2025
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America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute set a new record in 2024 by completing 682 solid organ transplants—the most the medical center has performed in a year—as patient survival outcomes continued to meet or …
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2024
October
30,
2024
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New research led by Cedars-Sinai investigators has reversed liver fibrosis, a gradual buildup of scar tissue in the liver, in laboratory mice. Their achievement marks a crucial step toward potentially creating new treatments for patients with this …
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February
28,
2024
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Patients diagnosed with steatotic liver disease (formerly called fatty liver disease) are usually advised to stop drinking alcoholic beverages. But a new study led by Cedars-Sinai found that drinking, on average, a small amount of alcohol a day did …
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February
02,
2024
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America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute together completed 652 solid organ transplants in 2023, far outpacing Cedars-Sinai’s internal record set just one year ago, when surgeons completed 583 transplants.Known for …
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2023
December
11,
2023
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14:00 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered how the liver defends itself against cancer. Their study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Hepatology, suggests targets for therapies to protect the liver both from cancers that originate there and …
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December
04,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This holiday season, Valance Sams, Sr. hopes to finish the most important thank-you note he’s ever written—one he’s been pondering for months. It’s been challenging to get all that he wants to say down on paper, in just the right way. Most days, a …
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November
22,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This Thanksgiving marks a little more than 25 years since Christine Galan became the first person in the Western U.S. to have a combined organ transplant (heart and liver), and nearly five years since she returned to Cedars-Sinai for another organ …
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July
24,
2023
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America/Los_Angeles
Valance Sams Sr.’s world was turned upside down 10 years ago when he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a rare inflammatory disease that caused a buildup of scar tissue on his heart and left him unable to work, exercise or even walk.But today, Sams …
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July
17,
2023
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Fiscal year 2023, which ended June 30, proved to be the busiest year yet for Cedars-Sinai’s Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute, with more than 600 organs transplanted.The kidney/pancreas transplant team completed 317 …
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