The Henry Ford Liver Disease Center is one of the nation's largest and most experienced in treating patients with liver diseases. Thousands of patients every year are cared for by the Center's comprehensive team of diagnostic, medical, interventional, surgical, and organ transplant specialists who provide advanced diagnostic studies and a wide range of therapies matched to each patient's type of liver disease.
Whether the condition involves a type of hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, liver cancer, or some other form of liver disease, the Henry Ford Liver Disease Center offers the expertise and experience to provide every patient the highest quality of advanced medical care.
The team of Henry Ford liver specialists includes Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Pathology, Surgery, and the Transplant Institute to help patients from diagnosis, medical management and treatment, to advanced endoscopic therapies, surgical therapies including minimally invasive techniques, and liver transplantation if required. Specialists at the Henry Ford Liver Disease Center have a long history of providing the most advanced patient care:
Liver medical specialists (gastroenterology specialty physicians who are also certified in the subspecialty field of hepatology for liver disease) offer a wide range of medical therapies, diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy procedures, as well as clinical research trials for many types of liver disease.
Liver surgeons specialize in minimally invasive techniques including robotics as an alternative to traditional, open abdominal surgery for patients requiring liver tumor removal.
Liver transplant surgeons belong to one of only two multi-organ transplant centers in the state, offering patients the most advanced procedures available. Henry Ford liver transplant specialists performed Michigan's first adult to adult living-donor liver transplant, Michigan's first split liver transplant, and Detroit's first liver transplant.
Liver cancer specialists provide advanced chemotherapies and radiation therapies for the treatment of liver cancer and performed Michigan's first radiofrequency ablation treatment for liver disease.
Through collaboration of multiple types of physician specialists, the Henry Ford Liver Disease Center offers patients with any type of liver condition the most advanced and comprehensive care available.
