LIVER, PANCREAS & BILIARY SURGERY 


Phone: 201-420-7903


Fax: 201-420-7985


Offices


Dr. Andrew de la Torre is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, completed his General Surgery residency at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and completed fellowships in liver, kidney, and pancreas transplant at the University of Maryland and Rutgers University Medical Schools. He holds an academic appointment at Rutgers Medical School in Newark. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease.

With many years experience as a liver transplant surgeon, Dr. de la Torre was the first to perform a major liver resection laparoscopically in the state of New Jersey, and has been performing laparoscopic liver surgery since 2007. Dr. de la Torre has 25 years of experience in surgery of the liver, pancreas, bile ducts, management of cirrhosis, portal hypertension, and liver cancer. Dr. De la Torre specializes in tissue sparing laparoscopic liver surgery in patients with cirrhosis, allowing the possibility of avoiding liver transplant for tumors located in the liver that were once not deemed feasible to remove. Dr. de la Torre published "
A Sling Technique For Laparoscopic Resection of Segment Seven of the Liver" in the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgery 2018 Apr-Jun; 22(2) In addition to advanced laparoscopic surgery of the liver, pancreas and bile ducts, Dr de la Torre works on grant funded population health projects to improve early diagnosis of liver, lung and colorectal cancer. His project "Electronic Health Record Year and Country of Birth Testing and Patient Navigation to Increase Diagnosis of Chronic Viral Hepatitis" was published in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis. Through that project, over 1000 people were newly diagnosed with hepatitis C infection, treated, avoiding future risk of liver cancer! Dr. de la Torre continues to work with New Jersey's neediest communities to make sure all of New Jersey's inhabitants have access to the highest quality of care.
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Patients challenged with the most complex illnesses receive multidisciplinary care from medical oncologists, hepatologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, and interventional radiologists. This balanced approach provides comprehensive care to patients and the best results possible.

As liver, pancreas and biliary surgery push into new frontiers, so does the technology needed to plan these complex procedures. Whether laparoscopic or open surgery, every possible detail of the patient's care is analyzed to ensure surgery is safe and effective
. 3D reconstructed imaging is used to plan surgery. No aspect of your care is taken for granted.


If surgery is not an option, Yttrium-90 Hepatic Artery Infusion, Hepatic Artery Embolization and Ablation are available to treat multiple types of non-surgical cancers in the liver. For patients with liver cancer who are not eligible for liver transplant, every effort will be made to help you become transplant eligible. For patients with liver disease who fail medical management of ascites or gastroentestinal bleeding, Transjugular Intrahepatic Porto Systemic Shunt (TIPS procedure) and surgical shunt are available.

Dr. de la Torre provides advanced liver, pancreas and biliary surgery and care at: Christ Hospital, Bayonne Medical Center, Hoboken University and Jersey City Medical Center.


Liver, pancreas and biliary procedures performed and illnesses treated include: