Open AccessFIBRINOLYTIC PREFLUSH UPON LIVER RETRIEVAL FROM NON???HEART BEATING DONORS TO ENHANCE POSTPRESERVATION VIABILITY AND ENERGETIC RECOVERY UPON REPERFUSION
Author(s) -
Thomas Minor,
Andreas Hachenberg,
René Tolba,
Dirk Pauleit,
S Akbar
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/00007890-200106270-00015
Subject(s) - viaspan , streptokinase , perfusion , fibrinolysis , medicine , transplantation , andrology , surgery , cardiology , myocardial infarction
Our objective was to evaluate graft equilibration with high viscosity (University of Wisconsin solution [UW]) or low viscosity (Bretschneider's histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate [HTK]) during liver procurement from non-heart beating donors (NHBD) and the potential impact of a preceding fibrinolysis with streptokinase on postpreservation viability.