Hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion in porcine donation after circulatory determination of death liver transplant.

BACKGROUND: Livers from donation after circulatory determination-of-death (DCD) donors suffer ischemic injury during a preextraction period of cardiac arrest and are infrequently used for transplantation; they have the potential, however, to considerably expand the donor pool. We aimed to determine...

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Main Authors: Fondevila, C, Hessheimer, A, Maathuis, M, Muñoz, J, Taurá, P, Calatayud, D, Leuvenink, H, Rimola, A, García-Valdecasas, J, Ploeg, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012