Explore how the liver functions, common liver conditions, and tips to maintain liver health through lifestyle changes like diet, exercise, and responsible alcohol use.

This reddish brown organ has two lobes, on the right and left, and it hangs out just on top of the gallbladder and next to parts of the pancreas and intestines. Your liver and these neighboring ...

Ultrasound of the liver shows a fluid-filled mass with a peripheral ... Transabdominal ultrasound shows a mass (arrows) in the right lobe. Note the echogenic central calcifications, which cast ...

Soejima Y (2006) Feasibility of left lobe living donor liver transplantation between adults: an 8-year, single-center experience of 107 cases. Am J Transplant 6: 1004–1011 Although adult-to ...

It involves using the tip of an ultrasound transducer probe placed between the ribs over the right lobe of the liver. The probe transmits a lower-amplitude vibration and frequency signal to the ...

The liver is a large, glandular, vital organ divided into two main lobes with a major role in metabolism, detoxification and production of chemicals necessary for digestion. The liver is ...

For the first time, the surgeons at the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital here have transplanted dual lobe liver (two donors) into one patient with 126 kg body weight and battling ...

An ultrasound may also reveal other changes, such as the enlargement of certain lobes of the liver, ascites, or cirrhosis. Ascites is the medical term for fluid collecting in the abdomen ...