Defatting of Human Livers During Long-Term ex situ Normothermic Perfusion: Novel Strategy to Rescue Discarded Organs for Transplantation

*Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Swiss HPB and Transplant Center Zurich, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

†Wyss Zurich Translational Center, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

‡Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, University Hospital Zurich and University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

§Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Macromolecular Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich

∥Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University Hospital Zurich and University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

This study was funded by a grant from Wyss Zurich Translational Center, Helmut Horten Foundation, PROMEDICA Foundation and the Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease (LGID) Foundation. We gratefully acknowledge this financial support.

The authors declare that they have nothing to disclose.

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