Liver Preservation by Aortic Perfusion Alone Compared With Preservation by Aortic Perfusion and Additional Arterial Ex Situ Back-Table Perfusion With Histidine-Tryptophan-Ketoglutarate Solution: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Multicenter Study

Background. Arterial ex situ back-table perfusion (BP) reportedly reduces ischemic-type biliary lesion after liver transplantation. We aimed to verify these findings in a prospective investigation. Methods. Our prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter study involved livers retrieved from pat...

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Main Authors: Gerd Otto, MD, Michael Heise, MD, Jochen Thies, MD, Michael Pitton, MD, Jens Schneider, MD, Gernot Kaiser, MD, Peter Neuhaus, MD, Otto Kollmar, MD, Michael Barthels, MD, Josef Geks, MD, Wolf Otto Bechstein, MD, Achim Hellinger, MD, Jürgen Klempnauer, MD, Winfried Padberg, MD, Nils Frühauf, MD, Andre Ebbing, Dietmar Mauer, MD, Astrid Schneider, Robert Kwiecien, Kai Kronfeld, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2017-07-01
Series:Transplantation Direct
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000000686