Normothermic regional perfusion vs. super-rapid recovery in controlled donation after circulatory death liver transplantation

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors, who are declared dead following cardiorespiratory arrest, are an increasingly common source of organs. The period of donor warm ischaemia surrounding arrest can damage the quality of organs in general and the liver in particular, because biliary cells are exquisitely susceptible to warm ischaemia.1 Thus, initial experiences with DCD liver transplantation described high rates of graft dysfunction and non-function and ischaemic type biliary lesions (ITBL).

Source: Journal of Hepatology - December 21, 2018 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 Tags: Research Article Source Type: research