Using pumps instead of ice chests may affect kidney transplants

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

WASHINGTON -- It's a scene familiar from TV dramas, a helicopter racing an ice chest holding a precious donated organ to waiting surgeons. But instead of storing kidneys on ice, a few transplant centers hook them to complex machines that pump special fluids through the blood vessels.

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