Transplant Center

The Nebraska Medical Center offers a wide range of medical and surgical treatment options to patients with liver or bile duct disease. These include:

• Providing comprehensive medical care for adult and pediatric patients with complex liver diseases.

• A multidisciplinary intestinal rehabilitation program for those patients on total parenteral nutrition (TPN) focusing on decreasing their need for TPN and possibly preventing or delaying the need for transplantation.

• State of the art expertise in performing cancer surgeries for those patients with liver, pancreas and bile duct cancers in conjunction with expert medical teams in hematology and oncology.

• Live donation liver transplants where part of a donor's liver is removed and implanted in the patient.

• Split liver transplantation where a part of a deceased donor is "split" between two donors usually a child and an adult.

• Reduced size liver transplants where a larger liver is surgically reduced to place into a smaller patient.

• Auxiliary transplantation where a piece of a liver is implanted without removing the patient's own liver (done in select cases where the native liver is expected to recover with time).