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: Amelia J. Hessheimer, Elisabeth Coll, Ferr án Torres, Patricia Ruíz, Mikel Gastaca, José Ignacio Rivas, Manuel Gómez, Belinda Sánchez, Julio Santoyo, Pablo Ramírez, Pascual Parrilla, Luis Miguel Marín, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Bravo, Juan Carlos Garcí Source Type: research
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