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Comment
. 2020 Oct;72(4):1485-1487.
doi: 10.1002/hep.31474.

Long-Term Perfusion of the Liver Outside the Body: Warming Up for Ex Vivo Therapies?

Ivo J Schurink  1 , Jorke Willemse  1 , Monique M A Verstegen  1 , Luc J W van der Laan  1 , Jeroen de Jonge  1
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Long-Term Perfusion of the Liver Outside the Body: Warming Up for Ex Vivo Therapies?

Ivo J Schurink et al. Hepatology. 2020 Oct.
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  • An integrated perfusion machine preserves injured human livers for 1 week.
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