The liver transplant program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is a collaborative effort between the Division of Hepatology and the Division of Abdominal Transplant. The program provides comprehensive transplant services for both adults and children with end-stage liver disease.

Since its inception in 1985, Rush's liver transplant program has been one of the most active programs of its kind in the nation. We offer transplantation to patients with liver failure due to such common causes as autoimmune hepatitis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, liver cancer, alpha-one anti-trypsin deficiency, hemochromatosis, Budd-Chiari syndrome and many others. We also offer transplantation to patients considered too sick or too high risk by other centers. These patients may be older, they may have advanced malignancy or a thrombosed portal vein, or they may have received a previous transplant or had multiple previous surgeries. Our team of surgeons is very experienced in these complex cases, as well as in more routine cases.

Finally, our team of transplant physicians offers living donor liver transplantation to patients with liver failure who are deteriorating rapidly or who have cancer. Our results, even with patients considered too high risk by other centers, are well above the national averages.

To find out if you are eligible for a liver transplant, please contact us at the number below. An in-depth reference section for referring physicians is also available on this site.