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Africa's first liver perfusion machine launches in South Africa

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Africa's first liver perfusion machine launches in South Africa
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A major breakthrough in organ transplantation has arrived in Africa, with South Africa's Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre becoming the first hospital on the continent to introduce a liver perfusion machine, a cutting-edge technology that preserves and revives donated livers outside the human body.The introduction of the machine comes years after the world's first liver perfusion procedures were successfully performed elsewhere. The liver perfusion machine keeps donated livers functioning o

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