UT Southwestern Medical Center offers the advanced diagnostic and treatment options needed to treat patients with all types of liver disease — ascites, cirrhosis of the liver, hemochromatosis and hepatitis A, B and C.  By preventing or delaying additional liver damage and related complications through innovative therapies, our hepatologists (liver disease specialists) are able to markedly improve the patient’s health and quality of life.

The medical center’s collaborative approach incorporates gastroenterologists, hepatologists, radiologists, hepatobiliary surgeons and pathologists (who specialize in evaluating biopsy tissue samples from the liver).

Physicians treat liver disease in conjunction with UT Southwestern research programs, offering patients the most advanced diagnostic evaluations and treatments available. 

UT Southwestern’s specialists provide the latest therapies to treat liver disease, including immunosuppressant medications, advanced procedures to treat portal hypertension and ascites (complications of cirrhosis), and chemoembolization, which delivers chemotherapy to cancerous liver tumors without exposing other parts of the body to the treatment.

Moreover, we offer:

• Interferon therapies for chronic viral hepatitis
• New therapies for chronic hepatitis B
• New therapies for hepatitis C
• Treatment for autoimmune liver disease
• Novel treatments for liver cancer
• Therapy for acute liver failure
• Liver transplantation
• Liver biopsy

For patients with hemochromatosis (excess iron in the body), UT Southwestern provides phlebotomy services and maintenance therapy.

In addition, UT Southwestern’s comprehensive medical resources enable patients to have an initial consultation, testing, follow-up visits and any needed medical procedures all in one location.