
Liver
If you have end-stage liver disease, a liver transplant can bring hope. Thousands of patients have trusted their care to the experienced team at University of Florida Health Shands Transplant Center. Our center has over 20 years’ experience providing excellent care to patients with complex liver diseases.
Our team members from many specialties work together to provide you with the best care possible. While other centers may follow a liver transplant patient for several months after surgery, at UF Health, we follow our patients for life. Doing this leads to better outcomes and a higher rate of success with your transplanted organ.
The UF Health Difference
As a patient of UF Health Shands Transplant Center, you benefit from our three key features: experience, expertise, and excellence.
- Experience. We were one of the first liver transplant programs in the state of Florida — and we’ve continued to lead the field in transplant techniques. Our doctors – who are faculty in the University of Florida College of Medicine – are committed to focusing our knowledge and research on patients with advanced liver disease.
- Expertise. Our team has successfully transplanted more than 1,900 patients with end-stage liver disease. Our multidisciplinary approach to patient care draws on the combined expertise of our transplant physicians, transplant surgeons, nurse coordinators, transplant assistants, social workers, financial counselors, transplant pharmacists, immunogeneticists, anesthesiologists, intensivists and psychologists.
- Excellence. In the January 2021 report, The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients has measured the percentage of patients who have survived transplant for one month, one year and three years. At our center, of the 66 patients transplanted between July 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2019, 92.42% survived one month, and 92.42% survived one year. Of the 81 patients transplanted between Jan. 1, 2015 and June 30, 2017, 82.62% survived three years.
Liver Transplant Services
Our liver transplant team provides you with a customized treatment plan. This means our team works closely together and with you to understand you, your liver condition and your treatment goals, enabling us to develop an optimal treatment plan based on your needs. The UF Health team closely follows you as you await transplant and following transplant, which helps to improve patient outcomes.
While waiting for an organ, you will receive a thorough yearly examination. This is because livers can become available quickly, and you need to be physically ready for surgery at short notice.
Liver Transplant Surgery
Your liver transplant surgery will last between four and eight hours. Following surgery, you will likely be in the intensive-care unit (ICU) for about two days, and then spend another eight to ten days in a regular hospital room, so we can provide close follow-up care after surgery to help monitor your medications and ensure you heal properly.
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Learn More
View our program outcomes from the SRTR website, as last reported in January 2021.
To learn more about our liver transplant services, contact 352.265.0754.
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Practice Location
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Insurance
UF Health is contracted with most transplant networks. Check with your employer or insurer for more information about accessing UF Health for transplant services or our call financial representative Ashley Hill at 352.265.0472 with any questions. View a list of accepted insurance at UF Health.
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