Device keeps liver ‘alive’ outside body in medical first

LONDON, Mar 16:  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 yesterday 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. (AGENCIES)