Donor liver quality after hypovolemic shock and venous systemic oxygen persufflation in an experimental animal model

Abstract Background The ever growing demand for liver transplantation inevitably necessitates an expansion of the donor pool. Utilization of “shock organs” is considered suboptimal to date while the associated outcome has hardly been investigated. Materials and methods Male Wistar rats underwent a p...

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Main Authors: Azin Jafari, Hanno Matthaei, Vittorio Branchi, Edwin Bölke, Rene H. Tolba, Jörg C. Kalff, Steffen Manekeller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-10-01
Series:European Journal of Medical Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40001-018-0346-5