Articles tagged "Liver preservation"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Therapeutic Targeting of Bile Acid Metabolism Ameliorates Liver Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
M. Ni¹, D. Jin², T. Lu², J. Zhang¹, R. Busuttil¹, J. Kupiec-Weglinski¹, J. Zhang², Y. Zhai¹
¹Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
*Purpose: Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) is the major nuclear receptor of bile acids, which is also involved in the regulation of innate immune responses. As…
2020 American Transplant Congress
CEACAM1 / ASK1 / p38 Signaling Axis Alleviates Peri-Transplant Liver Injury: From Mouse-to-Human
H. Hirao¹, K. Nakamura², S. Kageyama¹, T. Ito¹, K. Kadono¹, H. Kojima¹, K. J. Dery¹, S. Younan¹, R. W. Busuttil¹, F. M. Kaldas¹, J. Kupiec-Weglinski¹
¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ²Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
*Purpose: Although CEACAM1 (CM1; carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1; CD66a) regulates hepatic metabolic homeostasis, its role in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) remains unknown. A…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Persistent Fibrinolysis Shutdown in Liver Transplant Recipients is Associated with Early Allograph Dysfunction
H. B. Moore¹, T. Nydam¹, J. Pomposelli¹, C. Walker¹, A. Schulick¹, R. Choudhury¹, H. Yaffe¹, M. Adams², M. Cohen³, E. Pomfret¹
¹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ²Childrens Hospital, Aurora, CO, ³Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO
*Purpose: Early allograph dysfunction (EAD) in liver transplantation has been attributed to microvascular thrombosis. Treating grafts at risk of EAD with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Rouleaux Formation in Human Livers During Normothermic Machine Perfusion
M. Harris¹, S. Raigani², C. Albert³, M. Reschke³, C. Carroll², J. T. Langford¹, C. Edwards⁴, D. Mulligan⁴, D. Haakinson¹, K. Uygun², H. Yeh², G. Tietjen¹
¹Division of Transplantation, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²Division of Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science, New Haven, CT, ⁴Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: We recently discovered that red blood cells form rouleaux plugs in human kidney vasculature during normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) and are associated with poor…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Bridging the Gap: Normothermic Perfusion of Discarded Livers Significantly Alleviates the Donor Shortage
S. Raigani, R. J. De Vries, C. Carroll, Y. Chen, D. C. Chang, K. Uygun, H. Yeh
Transplant Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: European studies have shown that discarded liver grafts can be successfully transplanted if they meet viability criteria during normothermic machine perfusion (NMP). The potential…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Association of Perfusion Characteristics and Post-Transplant Liver Function in Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation
Z. Zhang, Y. Tang, Q. Zhao, Z. Guo, X. He
The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
*Purpose: It has been showed that normothermic machine perfusion (NMP), a novel preservation method, is able to assess and resuscitate liver grafts with risk factors.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ex Vivo Pumping Through an OPO’s Eyes
A. L. Friedman, E. Marquez
LiveOnNY, New York, NY
*Purpose: A single, large organ procurement organization (OPO) sought to document the use of extra-renal ex vivo pumping in the management of the deceased donor…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Ex-Vivo Perfusion with UW Cold Storage Solution Improves DCD Rat Liver Preservation
R. Fyffe-Freil, N. Wickramaratne, J. Khoraki, H. Kang, C. Chmielewski, R. Li, M. J. Mangino
Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
*Purpose: The donor pool of livers can be expanded by the successful use of donor livers recovered under DCD conditions. It is assumed that perfusion…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Rat Liver: Comparing Two Perfusion Methods
F. Zhou, M. Xu, O. Ahmed, G. A. Upadhya, Y. Lin, W. C. Chapman
Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: Isolated perfused rodent liver (IPRL) model has gained popularity in ex-vivo rat liver preservation and pharmacological intervention studies. Experimental conditions and system layouts vary…
2020 American Transplant Congress
DAMPs and NLRP3 Inflammasome Response in Fatty Liver Grafts Preservation in Different Preservation Solutions
R. G. Bardallo¹, R. G. Teixeira-Silva², A. Panisello-Rosello³, E. Folch-Puy³, J. Rosello Catafau⁴, T. Carbonell⁵
¹Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Experimental Pathology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, ³Experimental Pathology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ⁴Experimental Pathology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Cell Biology, Physiollogy and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Preservation solutions (UW, HTK and IGL-1) are widely used in clinical liver transplantation. It is well known that the composition of the preservation solution…