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The Donor Liver Gets a Live Instrument Panel
A wireless platform continuously tracks pH, glucose, and lactate in both perfusate and bile during warm-machine preservation.
Summary
A wireless platform continuously tracks pH, glucose, and lactate in both perfusate and bile during warm-machine preservation.
The Terasaki Institute and Mayo Clinic collaborators report a dual-compartment biosensing platform for donor livers undergoing normothermic machine perfusion. The system continuously monitors pH, glucose, and lactate in the circulating preservation fluid and in bile, providing a time-resolved view that occasional samples can miss. The Nature Communications study used human tissue samples and describes clinical deployment of the monitoring platform. Whether those signals improve transplant selection or outcomes requires prospective validation beyond measuring them reliably.
Why it matters
A wireless platform continuously tracks pH, glucose, and lactate in both perfusate and bile during warm-machine preservation.
Limits and context
- Whether those signals improve transplant selection or outcomes requires prospective validation beyond measuring them reliably.
Key claims
A wireless platform continuously tracks pH, glucose, and lactate in both perfusate and bile during warm-machine preservation.
Qualification: Whether those signals improve transplant selection or outcomes requires prospective validation beyond measuring them reliably.
Evidence: source-2026-07-14-010
Sources
- Terasaki Institute via EurekAlert: Real-time biosensing for donor liver preservationTerasaki Institute via EurekAlert · official announcement
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