Normothermic regional perfusion versus super rapid recovery in controlled donation after circulatory death liver transplantation

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors, which are declared dead following cardiorespiratory arrest, are an increasingly more common source of organs. The period of donor warm ischemia surrounding arrest can damage the quality of organs in general and the liver in particular, as biliary cells are exquisitely susceptible to warm ischemia (1). For this reason, initial experiences with DCD liver transplantation described high rates of graft dysfunction and non-function and ischemic type biliary lesions (ITBL).
Source: Journal of Hepatology - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Source Type: research