Viability criteria assessment during liver machine perfusion

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¹ Section of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
² Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA. paulo.martins@umassmemorial.org.

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Isabel M A Brüggenwirth et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;38(11):1260-1262.

doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0720-z. Epub 2020 Oct 26.

¹ Section of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
² Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA. paulo.martins@umassmemorial.org.

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An integrated perfusion machine preserves injured human livers for 1 week.
Eshmuminov D, Becker D, Bautista Borrego L, Hefti M, Schuler MJ, Hagedorn C, Muller X, Mueller M, Onder C, Graf R, Weber A, Dutkowski P, Rudolf von Rohr P, Clavien PA. Eshmuminov D, et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Feb;38(2):189-198. doi: 10.1038/s41587-019-0374-x. Epub 2020 Jan 13. Nat Biotechnol. 2020. PMID: 31932726 Free PMC article.

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