Transplantation of organs continues to be a primary therapeutic modality for treatment of end-
stage organ disease, and 1-year graft survival rates show increasing improvements for most …

Organ preservation review: history of organ preservation : Current Opinion in Organ
Transplantation Organ preservation review: history of organ preservation : Current Opinion in …

Over the last 20 years, a number of methods and solutions have been developed to
preserve donor organs for transplantation. Collins et al first introduced the simple cold …

Organ preservation for about 24 to 30 hours is required for use of most cadaveric organs.
This level of preservation has been achieved for the pancreas, liver, and kidney, and very …

T he University of Wisconsin organ preservation solution (the UW Solution) is a complex
one, developed over a 15-year span, with the intent of creating a versatile solution that could …

Organ transplantation provides the best available therapy for a myriad of medical conditions,
including end‐stage renal disease, hepatic failure and type I diabetes mellitus. The current …

The development of methods to safely preserve organs retrieved from victims of life-ending
accidents greatly improved the versatility of human organ transplantation. In fact, the …

Jeffrey L. Platt Transplantation is the preferred approach to the treatment of failure of the
heart, lungs, liver and kidneys and some would add the beta cells of the pancreas …

A retrospective analysis of all organs that were preserved with University of Wisconsin
solution was undertaken to assess the impact of this solution on early allograft function …

Renal preservation has contributed to improvements in human cadaver kidney
transplantation in terms of viability testing and logistics. Unfortunately, the antigenicity of a …