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First liver transplantation using a graft maintained ex vivo for several days

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Our multidisciplinary team used novel perfusion technology to successfully keep an injured liver graft discarded by all other centers alive for several days, allowing proper graft evaluation and repair. The graft was successfully transplanted into a sick patient, who recovered quickly and enjoyed a normal life at one-year follow up.

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Fig. 1: Novel perfusion system to maintain injured donor livers.

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This is a summary of: Clavien, P.-A. et al. Transplantation of a human liver following 3 days of ex situ normothermic preservation. Nat. Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01354-7 (2022)

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