Artificial Liver Extends Lives

March 7, 2009
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A New Solution
A new out of body artificial liver is addressing the problem by essentially doing what dialysis does for Kidneys. A patient's plasma passes through the dialysis membrane in the machine. The plasma then filters through human liver cells. "That plasma then bathes these liver cells, and the liver cells perform their function and return purified and detoxified plasma to the patient, Dr. Brown said.
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