A revolution in transplant medicine “: 10 to 20 percent more people can get a donor organ with a new method that is occupied by the University Medical Center Groningen.
Organs are intended for transplantation into the hospital in a special department not only better preserved, but can be “repaired”. On balance, therefore more and get better bodies available, reports the UMCG.
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The UMCG is the first hospital in the Netherlands that a has called organ perfusion chamber. Worldwide there are only a few, but no other hospital can simultaneously four kinds of bodies (heart, lungs, liver and kidneys), according to the UMCG.
On the special department members are treated with oxygen-rich fluid and nutrients. “As if a kidney is still in a living body,” said transplant surgeon Robert Porte
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The results during the last trial phase are promising, says Porte. He speaks of a “revolution in transplantation medicine.” The organs can be preserved better and improves quality.
In 2014, there were 271 people in the Netherlands that one or more organs after their death ceded for transplantation, while 1300 patients were on the waiting lists. Waiting lists are not eliminated by the new method, according to the Porte, but can be shorter. Also take survival, and patients are back on their feet faster.
RTL News / Reuters
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