Overnight machine perfusion lets liver transplants safely shift to daytime, study shows

MedicalXpress | avr. 03, 2026

It is safe for patients to receive a donor liver that has been intentionally preserved overnight using machine perfusion to enable a daytime transplant. This is shown by a study performed at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) in the Netherlands, including transplants using all types of donor organs. The post-transplant outcomes are at least as good as those for livers that were not treated with machine perfusion, or were treated for only a short time, prior to transplantation.