Resumen de Support system doubles the life of donor livers
Donated livers can now be kept healthy for at least a day thanks to a device that keeps the organ ticking over as if still inside the body. The technology could more than double the availability of livers for transplant. The device was developed by Constantin Coussios and Peter Friend at the University of Oxford, who unveiled it in London last week. In the US and Europe. 2000 donor livers are discarded annually because they deteriorate in transit, damaged by the ice packs and solutions that, for the past 40 years, have been the usual way to preserve them. A quarter of the 30,000 people onus and European transplant waiting lists die each year before receiving a liver.
