Objectives: University of Wisconsin solution has twice the cold hepatic preservation time as
does Euro-Collins solution. Histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate has a lower potassium …

Liver transplantation was first attempted more than four decades ago, and has now become
the standard treatment for almost all kinds of end-stage liver diseases. In the early 1980s …

BACKGROUND: SCOT 15 is a new solution to preserve abdominal organs for
transplantation. Its principal characteristic is the use of polyethylene glycol. Herein We report …

From 1995 to 2002 we monitored a group of 127 patients who had undergone kidney
transplantations in the Olomouc transplantation centre. The aim of our study was to assess …

AIM: To observe the protective effect of heat shock protein 72 (HSP 72) induced by
pretreatment of doxorubicin (DXR) on long-term cold preservation injury of rat livers …

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is a major cause of death more than 1 year after heart
transplantation. We evaluated the role and possible predictive value of different etiological …

Currently, liver transplantation practice is being challenged by the limited number of
available donor organs and the deteriorating quality of extended criteria grafts. Machine …

Glycine has been shown to decrease membrane injury in isolated cells due to hypoxia or
cold ischemia. The mechanisms of action of glycine are not known, but glycine may be …

Protective effects of quercetin (QE) on cold injury of liver were investigated with the
preservation experiments of isolated hepatocytes and whole liver in rats. When hepatocytes …

Background: Organ preservation solutions are not easily accessible in Iran, similar to many
resource-limited countries. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a locally-produced HTK …