Liver transplant patient
Credit: OHSU News
Jennifer Rosoff, 60, of Portland, underwent a liver transplant on May 23, 2023, at OHSU. Her new liver came from a donor located multiple hours away, which would not have been an option for her without a perfusion pump. A perfusion pump flows blood through a liver as much as 24 hours before transplantation instead of the traditional approach of chilling donor organs in ice and rushing to transplant them. OHSU is the only Oregon hospital that uses perfusion pumps for liver transplantation. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)