Capital Health and Temple University Hospital Announce Affiliation for Liver Transplant and Advanced Surgical Services
Capital
Health offers bloodless liver surgery and liver auto-transplant surgery
performed by Dr. Cataldo
Doria, an
internationally renowned hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeon who helped develop
these innovative techniques. As part of this new partnership, Temple patients who
are candidates for these advanced surgical procedures will be referred to
Capital Health.
Temple University Hospital’s team has decades of experience in caring
for patients with chronic liver diseases, including hepatitis, alcoholic liver
disease and liver cancer as well as those suffering from drug toxicity or a
rare metabolic disease. Temple’s highly skilled, multidisciplinary team is led
by Dr. Antonio Di Carlo,
Associate Professor of Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple
University (LKSOM) and Chief of Abdominal Organ Transplant Surgery at Temple
University Hospital; and Dr. Lee F. Peng,
Chief of Hepatology and Associate Professor of Medicine at LKSOM, and Medical
Director of Liver Transplantation at Temple University Hospital.
As
part of the new collaboration, Temple patients with pancreatic cancer who are
appropriate candidates will also have access to complex open and
robotic-assisted Whipple procedures performed by Dr. Doria at Capital Health.
For more information, visit capitalhealth.org.
