A GAME-changing liver transplant process may save many more lives.
In a world first, one was used after being preserved in a machine for three days.
Donor livers are usually stored on ice for no more than 12 hours.
The procedure in May 2021 was a success, with the Swiss patient now fully recovered.
The new process sees the liver supplied with a blood substitute at normal body temperature.
The transplanted organ had been damaged and not originally approved.
But the new method also allows impaired organs to receive therapies without time pressure.
Doctors hope it will increase the number of transplant livers.
Pierre-Alain Clavien from University Hospital Zurich, behind the breakthrough, said: “It is possible to alleviate the lack of functioning human organs and save lives.”
