Patient Stories

Innovative meso-Rex bypass technique performed to address a portal cavernoma in a young Swedish girl.

For the first time in the world, a little girl with hepatitis C has been “cured” following a liver transplant and novel drug therapy.

“I donated part of my liver to my son and would do it five more times.”

After donating a kidney to her nephew at UPMC ISMETT, Palermo, Italy, Sarah learns that true resilience lies in embracing life's challenges and finding beauty in every step forward.

Love of family was the driving force for Guiliana’s kidney donation to her husband at UPMC ISMETT, Palermo, Italy.

Andrea's devotion to family guided his decision to donate his kidney to his daughter at UPMC ISMETT, Palermo, Italy.

Liver transplants were performed on two patients from Malta within a few hours of each other at UPMC ISMETT, in Palermo, Italy.

Tiago suffered from Ebstein’s Anomaly. Read more about his journey to UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa.

When Teri Cook, an Australian native began having symptoms of hemifacial spasm, she found the most experienced surgeons for this condition at UPMC.

Faced with career-ending concussions, professional baseball player David Ross turned to the experts at UPMC’s Sports Medicine Concussion Program.

When 4-year-old Amirah from Puerto Rico needed a heart transplant her parents sought the best care, which led them to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

The prognosis for David’s peritoneal cancer was not good, until he met a team of experts at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.