A world first: for the first time, a human liver was treated in a machine and then successfully transplanted - EurekAlert

The multidisciplinary Zurich research team Liver4Life has succeeded in doing something during a treatment attempt that had never been achieved in the history of medicine until now: it treated an originally damaged human liver in a machine for three days outsi…

image: Prof. Pierre-Alain Clavien and Prof. Philipp Dutkowski during the transplantation of the liver treated in the machine.view more  Credit: USZ The Liver4Life research team owes its perfusion m… [+4189 chars]

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