Each day, 17 people waiting for an organ donation die in the United States. Research shows potential drawbacks to the traditional cold storage method for donated organs. In a first, the Liver4Life ...

A patient who underwent transplant with a liver that was preserved for 3 days outside of the body using warm machine perfusion was healthy and leading a normal life at 1 year, according to researchers ...

Since early 2023, it has become standard practice at UMCG to perform virtually all hour-long liver transplants during daytime. This is possible because donor livers can be preserved for much longer ...

A long-term follow-up study from a consortium of six European countries, coordinated by the department of Surgery of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) shows that, even 10 years after ...

Machine perfusion of kidneys from brain-dead donors is currently performed in approximately a third of all kidneys considered for transplantation in the United States. Machine perfusion of kidneys ...

Therapeutic hypothermia of donors didn't preserve kidney function as well as machine perfusion of the organ during cold storage, a randomized trial found. Compared with kidneys pumped with a ...