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During a liver transplant, your diseased or injured liver is removed. It's replaced with a healthy donor liver. Learn about the process leading up to your transplant.

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. One of the causes is infection with a virus called the hepatitis A virus (HAV). Learn about the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and when to call for help.

Your chest pain is called pleurisy. It often gets worse when you take a deep breath, cough, or sneeze. Learn all about this condition.

You have been diagnosed with pleural effusion. This makes it hard or painful to breathe. Learn about symptoms, causes, and treatment.

Circumcision is a procedure to remove the foreskin, the loose fold of skin that covers the head of the penis. Read on to learn more about adult circumcision and how it's done.

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) means you are having an allergic reaction to a common fungus called Aspergillus. ABPA causes the lungs to become inflamed. This leads to symptoms, such as wheezing and coughing.

It may take you some time to adjust to your tracheostomy. You may wonder how it will affect your daily life. You will need to make some changes, but you can get used to having a tracheostomy tube ("trach tube"). Your family, friends, and doctor can help.

Breast reduction surgery is also called reduction mammoplasty. Fat, tissue, and skin are removed from the breasts to make them smaller. The size of the areola (dark skin around the nipple) may be reduced. And the nipple may be moved higher on the breast. Read on to learn more about this surgery.

After an SCI, your bladder may not work the same way as before. During your rehabilitation, your health care team gave you a bladder program to help you adjust to and manage these changes. Going forward, it will be up to you to follow this program on a regular basis.