MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Surgeons at WVU Medicine performed the state’s first liver explant for tumor resection and liver autotransplant – a very rare procedure that requires a multi-disciplinary team of heart and liver transplant surgeons to care for one patient. The procedure is only available at a small number of academic medical centers in the United States.
The patient, Douglas “Mike” Logsdon, a 67-year-old from Hyndman, Pennsylvania, had a very rare form of cancer called a leiomyosarcoma. He sought care for mild pain in ...
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