Objective: Transplantation of organs retrieved after cardiac arrest could increase the donor
organ supply. However, the combination of warm ischemia and cold preservation is highly …

Objective: To compare conventional low-temperature storage of transplant donor livers
[static cold storage (SCS)] with storage of the organs at physiological body temperature …

Background/Aims Static cold storage (SCS) of the liver for transplantation is limited by time.
Continuation of metabolic activity leads to depletion of energy stores and loss of cellular …

The urgent need to expand the donor pool in order to attend to the growing demand for liver
transplantation has obliged physicians to consider the use of suboptimal liver grafts and also …

Background. Normothermic perfusion has been shown to resuscitate and maintain viability
of non–heart-beating donor (NHBD) livers that have undergone significant warm ischemic …

The quality of cold-stored livers declines with the extension of ischemic time, increasing the
risk of primary dys or nonfunction. A new concept to rescue preserved marginal liver grafts …

Extending transplant criteria to include livers obtained from donors after cardiac death
(DCD) could increase the liver donor pool, but conventional simple cold storage of these …

There is currently a severe shortage of liver grafts available for transplantation. Novel organ
preservation techniques are needed to expand the pool of donor livers. Machine perfusion …

Background. Hypothermic machine perfusion preservation has the potential to relieve the
current donor shortage problem by reclaiming and preserving marginal donor organs …

BACKGROUND: Although non-heart-beating donors have the potential to increase the
number of available organs, the livers are used very seldom because of the risk of primary …