Transplantation of discarded livers following viability testing with normothermic machine perfusion

Transplantation of discarded livers following viability testing with normothermic machine perfusion

The shortage of viable donated livers limits patient access to liver transplantation. Here the authors report the use of normothermic machine perfusion to help identify viable organs from livers discarded based on current clinical criteria, which are then transplanted to recipients in a single-arm c...

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Main Authors: Hynek Mergental, Richard W. Laing, Amanda J. Kirkham, M. Thamara P. R. Perera, Yuri L. Boteon, Joseph Attard, Darren Barton, Stuart Curbishley, Manpreet Wilkhu, Desley A. H. Neil, Stefan G. Hübscher, Paolo Muiesan, John R. Isaac, Keith J. Roberts, Manuel Abradelo, Andrea Schlegel, James Ferguson, Hentie Cilliers, Julian Bion, David H. Adams, Chris Morris, Peter J. Friend, Christina Yap, Simon C. Afford, Darius F. Mirza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16251-3

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16251-3

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