Liver transplants are better all around when you hold the ice
by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Apr 18, 2018
2 minutes
To preserve more livers for transplant patients who desperately need them, surgeons should take newly harvested organs out of their ice baths and immerse them instead in a warm, nutrient-rich soup, new research suggests.
In a head-to-head comparison of the two methods, preserving donor livers in conditions that mimic
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