Center for Liver Disease Management and Transplantation | The Medical City

The Medical City’s Center for Liver Disease Management and Transplantation (CLDMT) prides itself in providing world-class diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients with various liver diseases. It has an integrated and highly skilled multidisciplinary, patient-partnership approach anchored on ethical practice and dedicated to delivery of excellent outcomes.  The Medical City’s Center for Liver Disease Management and Transplantation is involved in various clinical trials in liver diseases such as liver cancer, cirrhosis and viral hepatitis. 

At present, the Center is the undisputed leader in the country and region in the management of liver disease and liver transplantation. It is also committed to help reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with liver disease in the Philippines and in the region. Over the years, it has continued to strive to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from liver disease through cost-effective, appropriate and innovative strategies of liver disease management and transplantation as provided by a multidisciplinary and highly skilled team of experts. Guided by high ethical and professional standards of health care and research, the Center is dedicated to meet the expectations of its patients boosted by its outstanding service and excellent outcomes of specialized integrated care.

Mission

The Center is committed to help reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with liver disease in the Philippines and in the region. We will continually strive to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from liver disease through cost-effective, appropriate and innovative strategies of liver disease management and transplantation provided by a multidisciplinary highly skilled team. Guided by high ethical and professional standards of health care and research, we are dedicated to meet the expectations of our patients of outstanding service and excellent outcomes of specialized integrated care.

Vision

TMC CLDMT is the leader in the country and in the region in the management of liver disease and in liver transplantation.


Core Values

  • Excellent and compassionate service
  • Leadership
  • Ethics in organ transplantation
  • Coordination and teamwork
  • Innovation and research


Services

  • Liver Transplantation (Pediatric and Adult)
  • Live donor liver transplantation
  • Deceased donor liver transplantation
  • Post-operative care of recipients and live donors
  • Therapeutic Strategies for Liver Tumors
  • Surgical resection
  • Portal vein embolization
  • Radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
  • Percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI)
  • Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE)
  • Traditional TACE
  • With DC beads (drug-eluting beads)
  • Transarterial embolization
  • Bland embolization
  • Radioembolization of Yttrium 90 beads
  • (Selective Internal Radiation Therapy or SIRT)
  • External Beam Radiation Therapy
  • 3D planning
  • Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
  • Systemic Therapy
  • Conventional chemotherapy
  • Targeted therapy
  • Therapeutic Strategies for Portal Hypertension
  • Endoscopic control of variceal bleeding
  • Paracentesis
  • Portosystemic shunts
  • Surgical
  • Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS)
  • Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies for Biliary Obstruction
  • Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
  • Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD)
  • Dilatation and stenting of strictures
  • Extraction of biliary stones
  • Liver Diagnostics
  • Liver Biopsy
  • Percutaneous
  • Transjugular
  • Laparoscopic
  • Hepatic venogram and hemodynamic study
  • Liver ultrasound with Doppler
  • Fibroscan



Our Team

CLDMT medical team is composed of a competent and compassionate multidisciplinary team of professionals who will provide the best possible care for patients with liver disease.  Its board-certified specialists are among the best in the country with a wealth of experience in managing liver disease. Dr. Maria Vanessa H. De Villa is the Director/General Surgeon, Center for Liver Disease Management and Transplantation (CLDMT)


Transplant specialists

Dr. Maria Vanessa De Villa

Dr. Anthony Yap

Dr. Siegfredo Paloyo


Transplant Hepatologists

Dr. Janus Ong

Dr. Edhel Tripon

Dr. Madalinee Eternity Labio


Transplant Anesthesiologists

Dr. Celina Ancheta

Dr. Grace Anne Herbosa

Jun Paolo Eltagonde, RN - Liver Transplant Coordinator

 

Non-transplant specialists

Gastroenterologists

Dr. Therese Macatula (Adult)

Dr. Almida Reodica (Pedia)

Dr. Dante Ang - Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgeon

Dr. Ramon Santos Ocampo - Interventional Radiologist

Dr. Marina Chua-Tan - Medical Oncologist

Shannen Grace Simon, RN - Liver Clinic Nurse

Gabriella Fernandez, RSW - Medical Social Worker


Microvascular Surgeons

Dr. Eric Perpetuo Arcilla

Dr. Glenn Angelo Genuino

Dr. Catherine Yap-Asedillo


Intensivists

Dr. Jose Emmanuel Palo (ICU Intensivist)

Dr. Luis Martin Habana (Cardio Intensivist)

Dr. Emily Aventura (Pulmo Intensivist)

Dr. Cybel Lara Abad - Infectious Disease Specialist 

Dr. Rouche Dela Cruz - Hepatopathologist


Radiologists

Dr. Romelito Jose Galsim

Dr. Irma Veroy

Dr. Ronald Yebes

Dr. Roberto Tanchanco - Nephrologist

Dr. Catherine Rosales - Hematologist


Furthermore, the Center maintains high quality standards of care through continuing medical education and training of health professionals. The Center also strives to advance the science and practice of liver disease management and transplantation by actively engaging in basic and clinical research. In terms of disease prevention, the Center is a staunch advocate of efforts directed to the prevention and early detection of liver disease.


Target Diseases

The Center will cater specifically to advanced or complicated liver disease, especially advanced chronic liver disease that will lead to liver failure and/or develop complications related to portal hypertension, e.g. variceal bleeding, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome, etc, requiring liver transplantation as the ultimate cure. Selected patients with hepatocellular carcinoma may also maximally benefit from liver transplantation. Acute liver failure, often requiring emergency liver transplantation, may also be managed by the Center. Tumors both benign and malignant particularly those that will require a multidisciplinary management approach, given the wide array of therapeutic options now available, may also be seen at the Center. Nonetheless the Center welcomes all forms of liver disease that may require its expert care.


1. Advanced Chronic Liver Disease, Cirrhosis, and Complications

  • Viral Hepatitis
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis C
  • Alcoholic Liver Disease
  • Cholestatic Liver Disease
  • Biliary Atresia
  • Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
  • Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
  • Metabolic or Genetic Disease
  • Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Wilson Disease
  • Hemochromatosis
  • Autoimmune Liver Disease


2. Acute Liver Failure

  • Acute Viral Hepatitis
  • Drug-induced Liver Failure
  • Acute-on-Chronic Liver Disease


3. Liver Tumors

  • Benign Liver Tumors
  • Hemangioma
  • Focal Nodular Hyperplasia
  • Hepatic Adenoma
  • Congenital Hepatic Cyst
  • Polycystic Liver Disease
  • Malignant Liver Tumors
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  • Cholangiocarcinoma
  • Metastatic Carcinoma


Please contact the liver center at tel. nos. (632) 988-1000/ (632) 988-7000 ext. 6506 or email tmcclvresearch@gmail.com for more details.

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Center for Liver Disease Management and Transplantation

The Medical City’s Center for Liver Disease Management and Transplantation is located on the 2nd floor of The Medical City’s Nursing Tower. It is open Monday to Friday from 8:00AM to 5:00PM.

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(632) 8-988-1000 / (632) 8-988-7000 ext. 6506/6507

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