Non-Transplant Hepatobiliary Surgery

Treatment for Hepatobiliary Disease

The Transplant Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center also provides state-of-the-art care for patients with non-transplant hepatobiliary disease (liver, bile duct and gallbladder-related). Transplant surgeons use advanced techniques to treat hepatobiliary conditions and disorders, such as minimally invasive (laparoscopic) and open surgery, along with other specialized procedures. Treatment areas of special emphasis include:

Surgery for malignant (cancerous) or benign (non-cancerous) diseases of the liver including laparoscopic liver resections
Surgery of gallbladder and bile duct for benign and malignant disease, including laparoscopic bile duct injuries and narrowing, and bile duct stones that cannot be removed with a flexible endoscope (lighted tube introduced through the mouth)
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal)
Portal decompressive procedures for portal hypertension (elevated pressure within the liver) or bleeding varices (enlarged veins in the gastrointestinal tract that bleed due to portal hypertension)
Chemoembolization (targeted chemotherapy to starve and shrink a tumor by blocking its blood supply)
Radiofrequency ablation (using heat and radio waves to destroy tumor cells)
Intra-arterial infusion pumps (timed release of chemotherapy, via a pump implanted in the artery, to target liver cancer that cannot be surgically removed)
Local (targeted) and systemic (treating the whole system) chemotherapy