The hundredth robotic living liver case makes Columbia the first program in the country to reach this milestone, though inside the team, the number lands more as a measure of what has changed than what has been achieved.
The immune system is often described as a defense system, but when scientists look closely enough, it begins to resemble something more like a conversation.
An interview with Tomoaki Kato, MD, Chief of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, about the current and future state of liver transplantation.
In a rare procedure involving four patients, a surgical team at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia completed a first-of-its-kind transplant in which a recipient got a new liver from a living donor, and their original liver was split to help two people.
Xenotransplantation is inching closer to clinical reality at Columbia, where decades of work in immune tolerance are converging to make lifesaving pig-to-human organ transplants possible.
When a West Point graduate’s wife faced a rare, life-threatening cancer, it was a fellow alum—now a pioneering liver surgeon at Columbia—who stepped in to save her life.
