Device keeps liver "alive" outside body in medical first

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Device keeps liver "alive" outside body in medical first

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/device-keeps-liver-alive-outside-body-medical-first-172924378.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/nr4MWBYTsPCXiLZAWSWbcQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-15T172924Z_1_CBRE92E1CLW00_RTROPTP_2_LIVER-DEVICE-TRANSPLANT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Handout photograph of the OrganOx team following the successful connection of the first human liver for transplant onto the OrganOx Metra device" align="left" title="Handout photograph of the OrganOx team following the successful connection of the first human liver for transplant onto the OrganOx Metra device" border="0" /></a>By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - A donated human liver has been kept alive, warm and functioning outside a human being on a newly-developed machine and then successfully transplanted into patients in a medical world first. A British team of doctors, engineers and surgeons announcing the achievement on Friday said it could be common practice in hospitals across the developed world within a few years, up to doubling the number of livers available for transplant. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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