Your abdominal muscles keep your organs and intestines in place. The protrusion of abdominal organs through a weak spot in the abdominal wall is called a hernia. Ventral hernias involve the front part ...

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has reactivated its abdominal organ transplant program after voluntarily suspending the program in April 2022 after a two-day May 2022 inspection ...

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has tapped Kambiz Etesami, MD, as division chief of abdominal organ transplantation, according to a Nov. 3 news release. Dr. Etesami joined the hospital in 2017 and ...

Stomach transplant surgery isn’t done often and it’s typically not a stand-alone surgery. A stomach transplant is usually performed as part of multiorgan transplant surgery. Read on to learn more ...

Hernias happen when there's an abnormal bulging of an organ or part of an organ through a weakness or gap in its containing wall. A spigelian hernia is a rare kind that's often difficult to diagnose.

A 99-year-old Oregon woman may have died not knowing that many of her organs were not where they should've been. Rose Marie Bentley is thought to be the oldest person with a rare condition called ...