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The Liver Center

801-213-3599
801-587-7539

81 North Mario Capecchi Drive

Salt Lake City, UT 84113

This department offers

  • Liver transplant program
  • Nephrology
Liver Center Doctors Helipad April 2023

For diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases and disorders, transplant, and advanced hepatobiliary care

As a parent, your child’s health and safety is your number one concern. The Liver Center at Primary Children’s Hospital is here to help your family and your child during the complex process of treating liver disease and other hepatic disorders. Our expert team of physicians, advanced practitioners, registered nurses, medical assistants, and related specialties are here to care for your child, with the Primary Children’s mission of “The Child First and Always,” as our guiding force.

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Advancing care

  • Recruited national talent from a variety of top programs in pediatric hepatology, and pediatric hepatobiliary and transplant surgery.
  • Established a new comprehensive therapeutic/interventional endoscopy program for the treatment of pancreas, liver and GI disorders. This is the only such program for children in the Intermountain West, and one of the few programs of its kind in the country.
  • Celebrated our 25th year of pediatric liver transplantation and the completion of our 300th pediatric liver transplant.
  • Continued our participation in the NIH-funded Childhood Liver Disease Research Network. This is a research program at 13 leading pediatric liver centers in North America and enrolls patients in studies with conditions such as biliary atresia.
  • Built the world’s largest patient database of pediatric primary sclerosing cholangitis with 1361 children from 54 centers in 18 countries. Efforts such as this will aid developments in research and treatment for liver disease.

Every time we have been seen by Dr. Laborda‘s team we have had nothing but a positive experience. All of the nurses are extremely compassionate, understanding and really listen to their patients.

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Living liver donation program

If you're thinking of helping someone in need, you might consider a living donation. A living donation is when a healthy person gives a piece of their liver to someone in need. Email or call the living donor coordinator to learn more.

Phone: 801-662-2940


Email: MM.Liver_Transplant@imail.org

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Our team is always working hard and providing the best care based on data, giving your child hope for a brighter future.

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Surgery and interventions

Primary Children’s Liver Center is one of only a handful of centers in the country that offer specific pediatric therapeutic/interventional endoscopy services. Dr. Trevor Laboda is experienced in these highly specialized, non-invasive procedures that provide your child with the treatment they need, without the bodily stress of surgery. Dr. Laborda is one of about 12 physicians trained in pediatric endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) in the United States. EUS is an advanced imaging procedure that can be used to collect a non-invasive biopsy from an organ or mass or can be used diagnostically to identify complex diseases. Additionally, other interventional endoscopy services offered include endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), luminal stenting for strictures of the GI tract, complex polyp removal and balloon enteroscopy.

Our Liver Center also offers advanced hepatobiliary (pertaining to the liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts) surgery techniques that are necessary for treatment of liver diseases and disorders. Our general surgery team works closely with our other specialties and surgeons to make sure your child receives the absolute best treatment for their diagnosis.

While we are so proud of our hepatology, GI, and transplant services, we are honored to offer these less common procedures to our patients in need. Our mission at the Primary Children’s Liver Center is to build a medical home for patients and families who have been searching for the excellent care their child deserves.

More information about our program

Chronic Hepatitis:

  • Autoimmune hepatitis
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C

Acute Liver Failure:

  • Wilson's Disease
  • Toxins
  • Viral infections

Cholestatic Liver Disease:

  • Biliary Atresia
  • Alagille Syndrome
  • Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis (PFIC)
  • Sclerosing Cholangitis
  • Neonatal hepatitis

Liver Tumors

  • Hemangioendothelioma
  • Hepatoblastoma
  • Sarcoma
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma

Metabolic Disorders involving the liver:

Hepatobiliary surgery is a treatment option for diseases and disorders of the liver, bile duct, pancreas and gallbladder, known as the biliary system. Examples of these specialized procedures include liver resections, cholecystectomies, and tumor resections.

Therapeutic Endoscopy refers to treatments that can be carried out by an endoscope. An endoscope is a flexible, narrow tube with a camera on the end of it, that allows the physician to see into the GI tract without surgical interventions. This is different from diagnostic endoscopy, as interventional endoscopy allows for procedures to occur with the help of the endoscope plus additional advanced imaging techniques such as ultrasound or x-rays. It is a unique opportunity for patients to receive treatment non-invasively.

Procedures Include:

  • Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
  • Biopsies
  • Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)

To refer or send records for Liver Disease and/or Transplant patients:

  • Phone: 801-213-3599
  • Fax: 801-587-7539­

To refer or send records for Hepatobiliary Surgery patients:

  • Phone: 801-662-2950
  • Fax: 801-662-2980­

To refer or send records for Therapeutic Endoscopy patients:

  • Fax: 801-587-7539