Respected as a leader in liver transplants, Dr. Lewis Teperman serves as director and founder of Mary Lea Johnson Richards Organ Transplantation Center. He was honored at the 2014 Liver Foundation gala event held in New York City. As part of his effort to ameliorate and cure liver disease, Dr. Lewis Teperman and his associates support dialysis and other treatments.

2.  Respected as a leader in liver transplants, Dr.
Lewis Teperman serves as director and founder
of Mary Lea Johnson Richards Organ
Transplantation Center. He was honored at the
2014 Liver Foundation gala event held in New
York City. As part of his effort to ameliorate and
cure liver disease, Dr. Lewis Teperman and his
associates support dialysis and other
treatments.
Most commonly used in cases of kidney
disease, dialysis flushes toxins from the affected
area until physicians can perform a transplant.

3.  In essence, dialysis machines act as makeshift
organs, stepping in to perform the same
functions and taking stress off the affected
kidney.
Although they perform the same function,
kidney dialysis and more recently, liver dialysis,
help only to varying degrees. Kidney dialysis
can keep patients alive for months, while liver
dialysis is useful for a very limited time. Many
physicians choose kidney dialysis for a patient
while the patient waits for a organ from a
deceased donor.

4.  When a liver donor is available,
physicians take only a portion of the liver.
The liver only needs a small portion of a
healthy organ to rejuvenate itself, which
enables donors to rejuvenate their own
livers as quickly as the patient.