An ultrasound-guided liver biopsy is a routine procedure in which doctors remove a small piece of liver tissue for analysis in a lab. Your doctor might recommend this procedure if they suspect there ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver damage ...

A person with symptoms of a liver problem may need to undergo a liver biopsy to determine the cause. A doctor can then make treatment recommendations based on the liver biopsy results. Liver biopsies ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure is a treatment method used to lower portal hypertension, or excessive pressure in your portal vein. This vein is responsible for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When primary care physicians interact with virtual specialists in hepatology, more of their patients have ...

UChicago Medicine is using a new technology to destroy liver tumors without radiation, chemotherapy or even cutting the skin. Called histotripsy, it destroys tumors using sound waves. Amber Sikes was ...

What Are Stage III and Stage IV Ovarian Cancer? Stage III ovarian cancer is when the cancer is not just found in one or both ovaries but has spread outside the pelvis to the abdomen, nearby lymph ...