Technique for preserving pre-transplant livers improves outcomes and organ pool
Monday, January 25, 2010 - 15:49
in Health & Medicine
Preserving organs on ice prior to transplantation, an approach known as cold storage or CS, has been the standard practice in liver transplant for 20 years. Now there is new evidence that a technique called hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) may offer an improvement, according to the first-ever study comparing the impact of the two techniques on transplant outcomes.