{"id":140050,"date":"2022-06-01T13:02:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/organ-transplant-breakthrough-shows-human-liver-can-survive-outside-the-body-for-days"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:02:39","slug":"organ-transplant-breakthrough-shows-human-liver-can-survive-outside-the-body-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/organ-transplant-breakthrough-shows-human-liver-can-survive-outside-the-body-for-days","title":{"rendered":"Organ Transplant Breakthrough Shows Human Liver Can Survive Outside The Body For Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/organ-transplant-breakthrough-shows-human-liver-can-survive-outside-the-body-for-days2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a donor organ becomes available to someone in need of a transplant, medical personnel need to act quickly. It only takes a few hours for expanding ice crystals to damage delicate tissue, leaving a window of less than 12 hours to assess, transport, and implant the new organ.<\/p>\n<p>This not only creates a tremendous time crunch to perform a delicate procedure, but leaves many organs unviable for transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>But a new breakthrough could vastly improve the landscape of liver transplantation: Scientists kept a liver preserved for three days, in non-frozen conditions, before transplanting it into a patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a donor organ becomes available to someone in need of a transplant, medical personnel need to act quickly. It only takes a few hours for expanding ice crystals to damage delicate tissue, leaving a window of less than 12 hours to assess, transport, and implant the new organ. This not only creates a tremendous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}