‘Science fiction’: How life-saving organs are being kept alive outside the body

In a first for Australia, the Austin Hospital in Melbourne successfully performed a double transplant on 51-year-old Frank Giamarelos using innovative organ perfusion technology. The technology kept his donor kidney and liver alive outside the body, improving transplant outcomes. Giamarelos, who faced organ failure, had been on the waitlist for almost two years before his surgery in October 2022.

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