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Organ cooling in liver transplantation and resection: How low should we go?
Author(s) -
Golen Rowan F.,
Reiniers Megan J.,
Gulik Thomas M.,
Heger Michal
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hepatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.488
H-Index - 361
eISSN - 1527-3350
pISSN - 0270-9139
DOI - 10.1002/hep.27590
Subject(s) - transplantation , liver transplantation , machine perfusion , medicine , extracorporeal , resection , organ transplantation , general surgery , surgery
The realization of long-term human organ preservation will have groundbreaking effects on the current practice of transplantation. Herein we present a new technique based on subzero nonfreezing preservation and extracorporeal machine perfusion that allows transplantation of rat livers preserved for up to four days, thereby tripling the viable preservation duration. (Reprinted with permission