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The UAMS Health hepatobiliary surgical team offers expert, multidisciplinary care for patients with liver tumors, liver cysts, and both benign and malignant bile duct strictures. Our approach is not solely surgical; we work closely with gastroenterologists specialized in liver diseases and medical oncologists to review each case and tailor a personalized treatment plan for every patient.
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We started this new program to take care of patients with liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile duct problems called the hepatobiliary (HPB) program. It’s the only one of its kind in the state of Arkansas. It’s multi-disciplinary.
We have many different services taking care of these patients, particularly surgery, transplant surgery, advanced gastroenterology, interventional radiology, as well as general gastroenterology, all involved in taking care of these patients. The real unique part of it is that we all work together. We have our own tumor board to discuss these patients and we really think through what’s best.
Once they’re referred to our service, they’re seen initially by usually one of the surgical oncologists or the transplant surgeons, where we will evaluate what the pathology is and what additional treatments or testing we may need to get. And then a lot of times we will discuss these patients at our specialty tumor board, which includes patients only with these pathologies. And there we have the advanced gastroenterologists, the interventional radiologists, other surgeons, everyone together so that we can really think through how we can optimally treat these patients with all of our skill sets.
