Advantages of normothermic perfusion over cold storage in liver preservation.
BACKGROUND: To minimize the ischemia-reperfusion injury that occurs to the liver with the current method of preservation and transplantation, we have used an extracorporeal circuit to preserve the liver with normothermic, oxygenated, sanguineous perfusion. In this study, we directly compared preser...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2002
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