As part of the Liver4Life project, researchers in Zurich have developed a new machine that can keep livers alive outside the body for up to a week. The development of this machine could reduce waiting ...

A human liver deemed not viable for transplant has been repaired by an innovative perfusion machine and subsequently transplanted into a patient who continues to do well a year after the ...

The perfusion technique developed at UMCG to test the quality of donor livers led to a record number of liver transplants last year. Not only in Groningen, but throughout the Netherlands. Meanwhile, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Donor organs for liver transplants can stay viable for less than 12 ...

A new system is capable of maintaining a human liver outside the body for seven days, during which time the damaged organ can be repaired and prepared for transplantation. At best, conventional ...

Doctors working to transplant livers need to move fast, with the organs often lasting just a matter of hours once removed from the donor’s body. In what is being touted as a major breakthrough, ...

The liver recipient was a cancer patient running out of time on the transplant waitlist. One year post-procedure, he's still doing well. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered ...

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Therapeutic hypothermia in brain-dead organ donors has been shown to reduce delayed graft function in kidney recipients after transplantation. Data are needed on the effect of hypothermia as compared ...

In a paper published in TECHNOLOGY, a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has demonstrated 24-hour rat liver viability in a normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) system. Rat ...