Rapid Metabolic Recovery of Donor Circulatory Death Liver Graft Using Whole Blood Perfusion: A Pig Study

Background. Ex vivo perfusion technology has been actively developed to solve the problem of severe donor shortage. In this study, the ex vivo metabolic characteristics of porcine donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver in short-term perfusion using whole or diluted blood were compared with tho...

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Main Authors: Syuhei Yoshimoto, MS, Masayuki Ohara, MS, Shinji Torai, MS, Hiroo Kasamatsu, MS, Jun Ishikawa, PhD, Takahiro Kimura, MS, Soichi Nadahara, PhD, Eiji Kobayashi, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2021-07-01
Series:Transplantation Direct
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001170