https://www.labonline.com.au/content/life-scientist/news/damaged-liver-repaired-transplanted-after-3-days-outside-body-201656047

A cancer patient on the Swisstransplant waiting list, who was in urgent need of a new liver due to a rapidly progressing tumour, was given the choice of using the treated human liver. The organ was transplanted in May 2021, with the patient leaving hospital a few days after the procedure. The transplant was documented in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

The next step in the Liver4Life project is to review the procedure on other patients and to demonstrate its efficacy and safety in the form of a multicentre study. Its success would mean that in the future, a liver transplantation, which usually constitutes an emergency procedure, would be transformed into a plannable elective procedure. At the same time, a next generation of machines is being developed.

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