Oxygen Carriers for a Novel Bio-artificial Liver Support System
Francis Sean Moolman
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Oxygen Carriers for a Novel Bio-artificial Liver Support System

Development and Characterisation

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Acute liver failure is a devastating condition withhigher than 80% mortality. Currently the onlysuccessful treatment is orthotopic livertransplantation. The high mortality rate could bereduced if a system could be developed that couldbridge the patient either until recovery (due to theliver s well-known regeneration ability) or untiltransplantation. The CSIR and University of Pretoria(UP) have designed and developed a novelbio-artificial liver support system (BALSS) thatutilizes a perfluorooctyl bromide (PFOB) emulsion asartificial oxygen carrier. A study was carried out toinvestigate relevant...