{"id":433435,"date":"2026-10-20T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:50:07","slug":"tampa-general-completes-1000th-liver-perfusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433435\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa General completes 1,000th liver perfusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 20, 2026 &#8211; The Tampa General Hospital Transplant Institute has completed its 1,000th liver perfusion. According to a prepared statement, &#8220;TGH performed its first liver perfusion in October 2022 and has used normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) for every liver transplanted at the hospital since September 2023.&#8221; Normothermic machine perfusion &#8220;maintains a donor liver outside the body at near-normal body temperature while circulating oxygenated blood and nutrients.&#8221; As a result, liver functions can be assessed before transplantation. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tgh.org\/news\/tgh-press-releases\/2026\/october\/tgh-expands-transplant-access-through-largest-center-based-liver-perfusion-program-in-the-world\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link.\u00a0<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 20, 2026 &#8211; The Tampa General Hospital Transplant Institute has completed its 1,000th liver perfusion. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-433435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}