Successful outflow reconstruction to salvage traumatic hepatic vein-caval avulsion of a normothermic machine ex-situ perfused liver graft: case report and management of organ pool challenges

Donor organ shortage continues to limit the availability of liver transplantation, a successful and established therapy of end-stage liver diseases. Strategies to mitigate graft shortage include the utilization of marginal livers and recently ex-situ normothermic machine perfusion devices. A 59-year...

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Main Authors: Athanasopoulos, P, Hadjittofi, C, Dharmapala, A, Orti-Rodriguez, R, Ferro, A, Nasralla, D, Konstantinidou, S, Malagó, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins 2016