— Patient healthy and leading normal life at 1 year
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 from Switzerland.
The recipient experienced only minimal graft injury with normal bilirubin levels and a small release of liver enzymes within the first week after receiving the graft via ex situ normothermic preservation (peak alanine transaminase [ALT] 138 UL-1 and peak aspartate aminotransferase [AST] 309 UL-1), reported Pierre-Alain Clavien, MD, of University Hospital Zurich, and colleagues. Read more in MedPage Today.