"Friger-liver": New Transplant Technology Saves Lives

Saturday - January 20 2024, 11:34 UTC - 10 months ago

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The new "friger-liver" technology allows for the use of pig livers to temporarily support patients with acute liver failure, giving them time to recover until a human liver transplant becomes available.

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One of the biggest challenges in modern medicine is finding a way to save the lives of patients with acute liver failure. However, a team of doctors and researchers may have found a solution with a new technology called the "friger-liver". Surgeon Abraham Shaked and his team at the University of Pennsylvania recently made medical history by successfully using a pig liver to support a brain-dead patient's body for three days, a feat that had never been achieved before .

The liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate itself, meaning that part or all of it can regrow if damaged.

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