Queen Elizabeth Hospital first to revive a liver for transplant
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham has become the first in the world to successfully revive a liver for a transplant.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham has become the first in the world to successfully revive a liver for a transplant.
Mr Thamara Perera, a liver transplant surgeon, has called a pioneering new procedure which could change the future of organ transplantation a 'significant achievement'.
It comes after a patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham became the first person in the world to have a liver transplant where a machine was to resuscitate a donated liver which would previously have been discarded.
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