{"id":4813,"date":"2022-06-26T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:09:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:09:22","slug":"a-new-storage-technique-could-vastly-expand-the-number-of-livers-available-for-transplant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/06\/26\/a-new-storage-technique-could-vastly-expand-the-number-of-livers-available-for-transplant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A new storage technique could vastly expand the number of livers available for transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4813\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>It allows donor livers to be held for days\u2014significantly longer than the standard now\u2013and even treated if they are damaged.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A patient who received a donated liver that had been stored for three days in a new type of machine that mimics the human body is healthy one year on from surgery, according to a study in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-022-01354-7\">Nature Biotechnology<\/a>. The technology could significantly increase the number of livers suitable for transplant, the authors claim, both by enabling donor livers to be preserved for longer than the current standard and by making it possible to repair organs that are available but too damaged to transplant as is. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2022\/05\/31\/1052956\/storage-expand-liver-transplant-waitlist-lesion\/\">Read more in MIT Technology Review.<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"4813\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"1\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading It allows donor livers to be held for days\u2014significantly longer than the standard now\u2013and even treated if they are damaged. A patient who received a donated liver that had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/06\/26\/a-new-storage-technique-could-vastly-expand-the-number-of-livers-available-for-transplant-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new storage technique could vastly expand the number of livers available for transplant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":3909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,7],"tags":[626,172,625],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"1","views":"1315","post_likes_plusCounter":"","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}