When a donor organ becomes available to someone in need of a transplant, medical personnel need to act quickly. It only takes a few hours for expanding ice crystals to damage delicate tissue, leaving a window of less than 12 hours to assess, transpor
This not only creates a tremendous time crunch to perform a delicate procedure, but leaves many organs unviable for transplantation.
A year later, the recipient was perfectly healthy, with normal liver function and a normal quality of life. Although further investigation is necessary ahead of widespread clinical uptake, the results could mean, in the future, an increase in the number of livers deemed viable for transplantation. The technique the team used to preserve the liver is one that has been gaining increasing traction in the medical world.
The liver itself had a tumor of an unknown nature, which would have required a diagnostic work-up before the organ could be deemed suitable for transplantation.
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