Liver, Biliary, & Pancreatic Disorders
Why choose UVa for Liver, Biliary, & Pancreatic Disorders?
UVa provides a full range of services for liver, biliary and pancreatic disorders, and offers special expertise in the following areas
- Benign Pancreatic Disease
- Pancreatic and Bile Duct cancers
- Pancreatic Transplantation
- Liver Transplantation
National Recognition
- The Digestive Health Center has been named a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Digestive Research Center, one of only 16 in the country.
- UVa's Digestive Health Center works in partnership with UVa's National Cancer Institute-designated Clinical Cancer Center.
- UVa doctors have published the largest study in the world on outcomes for the treatment of benign pancreatic pseudocysts--a side effect of pancreatic disease.
- UVa performed the region's first auxiliary liver transplant in a pediatric patient, one of only a handful of such surgeries performed in the world.
Innovative treatment and technology
- Groundbreakding new treament of pancreatic disease using advanced endoscopic ultrasound technology, innovative surgical and nutrition approaches.
- Advanced minimally invasive treatment of bile duct conditions employing stenting, imaging, and endoscopic treatments available at only a few centers in the country
- A UVa physician co-chairs the first study on living liver donors in the world.
Click here to find a doctor at UVa for liver, biliary, & pancreatic disorders.
Click here to find clinical services at UVa for liver, biliary, & pancreatic disorders.
Click here to read more about liver, biliary, & pancreatic disorders.