Doctors Take Out Patient’s Damaged Liver, Transplant It Back After Treating It

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Doctors in Switzerland have successfully removed a cancer patient’s damaged liver before transplanting it back into his body after having treated the organ in a machine for three days.

The multidisciplinary Liver4Life team at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) has claimed that the procedure is the first of its kind in the world and they credited their in-house perfusion machine with making the feat possible. Read the full story in Newsweek here.

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