Liver Transplant Care
Our expert team delivers comprehensive medical and surgical care for liver transplantation.
Liver Transplant Care
Our expert team delivers comprehensive medical and surgical care for liver transplantation.
Advanced Care for Liver Disease and Transplant Surgery
If you have end-stage liver disease, you may be a candidate for a liver transplant. Our USC Liver Transplant and Comprehensive Liver Disease Care Center provides expert, innovative care for all types of liver disease and conditions. We bring together a multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses and physician assistants, as well as support staff, who will be by your side at each step of your transplant journey. We tailor our diagnostic and treatment therapies to help you manage your unique liver disease symptoms.
Our specialists have extensive experience treating all types of liver disease, including fatty liver disease, liver cancer, alcohol-related liver disease, auto-immune hepatitis, viral hepatitis and metabolic liver disease. We are innovators in the field of liver transplant care, giving you access to the most advanced treatment options available, such as:
- Combined-organ transplants (kidney, heart and lung)
- Living-donor liver transplants
- Living-related liver transplants
- Transfusion-free liver transplants
We are part of the United Network for Organ Sharing, the agency that coordinates the nation’s organ transplant system. We also give you access to our Donate Well program, which helps you manage your health before transplant surgery. No matter how challenging your condition may be, our liver transplant team will help you get the care you need.
What Is a Living-donor Liver Transplant?
Conditions We Treat
- Alcohol-related liver disease
- Auto-immune hepatitis
- Fatty liver disease
- Genetic liver disease
- Liver cancer
- Metabolic liver disease
- Viral hepatitis
Treatments We Offer
- Combined-organ transplant (with kidney, heart and lung)
- Deceased-donor liver transplant
- Liver cancer care
- Living-donor liver transplant
- Living-related liver transplant
- Transfusion-free liver transplant
Donate Well Program
What is the Donate Well program?
Donate Well is a personalized 8-week wellness program, designed to help living donors get healthy enough for organ donation.
Participants in the donor wellness program will receive access to nutrition consultations and a registered dietitian, lifestyle redesign coaching with an occupational therapist and USC-approved fitness support. Participants will also receive a wellness starter kit with additional resources such as:
- Blood pressure monitor
- Body weight scale
- Mindful USC mobile app
- Personalized meal plans
- Sports water bottle
- Wearable fitness tracker
- Wellness journal
Participants will be regularly monitored by the transplant team through medical tests and other metrics to determine if and when they are healthy enough to become a donor. Once a participant becomes a donor, the team will monitor them for two years after the surgery to encourage a permanent healthy lifestyle.
What are the eligibility requirements for Donate Well?
To be eligible for the program, candidates must be:
- 18 years or older
- Financially and psychologically suitable for organ donation
- Medically determined to have a fatty liver, prediabetes and/or metabolic syndrome
Frequently Asked Questions
What will happen during my evaluation?
Our team will provide a comprehensive evaluation to determine your eligibility for liver transplant services. If you are eligible, you will be placed on an organ transplant list.
How will I obtain a liver transplant?
If you are eligible for liver transplant services at Keck Medicine, you will be placed on a transplant list, pending the availability of an organ. Once an organ becomes available, we will schedule your surgery.
What types of providers will manage my liver transplant surgery and treatment?
We offer a patient-centered, multidisciplinary approach to care, and bring together specialists in adult and pediatric liver transplant surgery and hepatology, as well as nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Our liver transplant and liver disease doctors also work in close collaboration with specialists in oncology, nephrology, cardiology, infectious diseases and pulmonology.
We are inclusive in our approach and work closely with you, your family and caregivers to create a personalized treatment plan. Our transplant team will manage your care before and after surgery and follow your transplant journey for life.
What type of support services does Keck Medicine offer?
We offer transplant coordinators who are assigned to manage your care throughout your liver transplant journey. Our transplant coordinators will also connect to a wide network of support services and providers, including nutritionists, pharmacists, physical therapists, mental health specialists, social workers and financial coordinators.
A Trusted Team for Liver Transplant Surgery
Our team includes specialists in adult and pediatric transplant surgery, hepatology, cardiology, gastrointestinal disease, infectious diseases, nephrology, oncology and pulmonology.
Our transplant coordinators connect you to an extended support team of dietitians, pharmacists, physical therapists, mental health providers, social workers and financial coordinators.
We performed the world’s first adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplant without a blood transfusion and are one of the few centers in the United States providing this service.
We performed the first live donor liver transplant between adults in Southern California.
We are designated as a Center of Distinction by Blue Cross Blue Shield for our medical excellence in liver transplant care.