The Liver Group Charity

The Liver Group Charity Every year in the UK more than 16,000 people die of liver failure, and globally this affects millions.

Our Aim: To support the development of the Bioartificial Liver Machine, a breakthrough in the treatment of liver disease as important as dialysis was for kidney failure, which will save millions of lives worldwide. The aim of The Liver Group Charity is to improve the treatment of liver disease through research, with a particular thrust into the development of the Bioartificial Liver. The research

and development involved in achieving this long term aim necessarily – and beneficially - includes the education and training of scientists and clinicians. Liver disease is the only major disease which is rising in the UK today, whilst organs available for liver transplant are declining and more than a third of people on the waiting list for a liver transplant die before an organ becomes available. Our Bioartificial Liver “buys time” for a sick liver to repair itself in patients with acute liver failure, so that a patient could leave hospital without the lifelong drug regime necessary after a transplant. Even in patients with chronic liver disease, who will inevitably need a whole new liver, the Bioartificial Liver will buy them time until a compatible new liver is available.

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UCL Institute For Liver And Digestive Health/The Liver Group, UCL-Royal Free Hospital Campus University College Medical School, Upper Third Floor, Rowland Hill St, Hampstead
London
NW32PF

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+442080168374

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