Damaged liver repaired inside machine for three days before transplant

A broken liver that was stored alive and repaired in a machine for 3 days exterior the physique earlier than transplantation is functioning usually within the recipient a 12 months later

By Carissa Wong

A human liver thought of too broken for transplant has been repaired inside a machine over  three days and efficiently transplanted right into a recipient. The expertise may improve the variety of livers accessible for transplant.

Human livers for transplant are in brief provide. Within the UK, an grownup waits a median of 65 days to receive one.

“Persons are dying on the ready listing,” says Pierre-Alain Clavien on the College Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.

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