Liver device helps man survive until transplant

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Jul. 1, 2009

Eddie Lopez, a 50-year-old San Francisco man with cirrhosis, went into liver failure in March, arrived at California Pacific Medical Center in a coma and was put on life support. Lopez was too sick to qualify for a liver transplant, even if a donated organ...

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