Liver Transplant

South Florida Transplant Center at Broward Health

As the first hospital in Broward County to perform liver transplants, the South Florida Transplant Center at Broward Health Medical Center continues to provide transplant expertise.

Liver Transplant

South Florida Transplant Center at Broward Health

As the first hospital in Broward County to perform liver transplants, the South Florida Transplant Center at Broward Health Medical Center continues to provide transplant expertise.

Comprehensive Liver Transplant Care

Since 2004, our Liver Transplant Program has cared for patients suffering from end-stage liver disease. We continuously strive to provide dedicated liver transplantation services with excellent outcomes.

Transplantation involves surgically replacing the diseased organ with a healthy, new liver to restore liver function.

Liver Cancer and Hepatobiliary Surgery

In addition to liver transplant services, the South Florida Transplant Center’s team of specialists is dedicated to caring for liver cancer patients. The team offers a multi-modal approach, including radiofrequency ablation, trans-arterial chemoembolization, and laparoscopic liver resection.

Complex hepatobiliary surgery cases, such as biliary reconstruction after bile duct injury and liver resections for benign and malignant diseases, are also part of the surgical team’s expertise.

Conditions that May Lead to a Liver Transplant

Acute liver failure

Alcoholic cirrhosis

Cancerous liver or bile duct tumors

Drug-induced liver injury

Major blood vessel issues that supply the liver

Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis (NASH)

Noncancerous tumors of the liver

Viral hepatitis

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Factors that Increase Your Risk for Liver Disease

Your liver is an essential organ for digesting food and eliminating toxic substances from your body. Liver health is critical, but certain factors can cause damage to this vital organ, including:

  • Blood transfusion before 1992
  • Exposure to other people's blood and body fluids
  • Heavy alcohol use
  • Injecting drugs using shared needles
  • Obesity
  • Tattoos or body piercings
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Unprotected sex
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Doctor performing surgery

Why Choose Broward Health?

The South Florida Transplant Center offers expert care close to home.

In 2018, Florida Blue recognized the South Florida Transplant Center as a Blue Distinction® Center for Transplants for Adult Liver Transplant. The recognition is a part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program, which recognizes nationally designated hospitals that show expertise in delivering enhanced patient safety and superior health outcomes based on objective measures developed with input from the medical community.

Data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) demonstrates that our program’s outcomes are among the nation’s best. In fact, in 2017, SRTR recognized the program as one of the top 10 in the nation for liver transplants, and Broward Health Medical Center was the only Florida hospital included on the list.

This prestigious recognition demonstrates the liver transplant team’s continued commitment to excellence.

Contact Us

For more information about liver transplants, call the Transplant Donor Desk, which is available 24 hours a day year-round, at 954.831.2763 or email livertransplant@browardhealth.org.

Meet Our Team

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El-Gazzaz, Galal, MD

General Surgery, Transplant Surgery

1601 S Andrews Ave

3rd Floor

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

954-320-3304

Broward Health Physician Group

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Maneckshana, Bejon, MD

Transplant Surgery

800 Fairway Drive

Suite 300

Deefield Beach, FL 33441

954-998-2418

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Osman Mohamed, Hussein K., MD

General Surgery, Transplant Surgery

1625 SE 3rd Avenue

Suite 721

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

954-831-2763

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Island, Eddie R., MD

Transplant Surgery

1801 NW 9th Avenue

Highland Prof Bldg Suite 5

Miami, FL 33136

305-355-5774

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Franco, Edson S., MD

General Surgery, Robotic Surgery, Transplant Surgery

1508 SE 3rd Ave

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

954-462-8714

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Donchev, Vladimir B., MD

General Surgery, Transplant Surgery

5651 NW 29th Street

Margate, FL 33063

754-220-8100

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Shaw, Joshua J., MD

General Surgery, Transplant Surgery

3001 Coral Hills Drive

Suite 320

Coral Springs, FL 33065

954-755-0111

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