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Articles tagged "Liver preservation"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    36 Hours of Ex-Vivo Warm Cellular Perfusion of Swine Liver Using the Organ Care System (OCS™) Liver with Excellent Functional, Metabolic and Histological Outcomes.

    J. Magliocca,1 J. Markmann,2 M. Abouljoud,3 M. Ghobrial,4 A. Demetris.5

    1Division of Transplant Surgery Department of Surgery, The Emory Transplant Center, Atlanta, GA; 2Department of Surgery Division of Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Transplant Institute and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; 4Surgery - General, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 5Department of Transplant Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

    Cold storage preservation results in ischemia/reperfusion injury to the donor liver, it lacks any resuscitative or assessment capabilities. The OCS™ Liver maintains livers in a…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Improved Outcomes After Liver Transplantation from Controlled DCD Donors with Normothermic Regional Perfusion.

    G. Oniscu, F. Hunt, W. Herries, I. Currie, A. Sutherland, C. Beattie, E. Thomson.

    Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Background: Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) is currently explored as a method to recover organs from Maastricht category I-III Donors after circulatory death (DCD). This study…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Early Results of the UK REVIVE Trial for Ex-Vivo Liver Warm Blood Perfusion of DCD and DBD Livers Using the Portable Organ Care System (OCS™) Liver Technology.

    D. Vijayanand, F. Zahreldeen, J. Kingston, S. Farid, T. Mdlongwa, A. Ramsden, S. Willis, C. Moriarty, M. Attia.

    Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Purpose:TheOCS Liver REVIVE Trial is a single-arm prospective trial to evaluate the safety and performance of OCS™ Liver system to preserve and assess DCD and…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    GSK3β and VDAC in Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Apoptosis Modulation During Orthotropic Liver Transplantation.

    M. Zaouali,1,5 A. Panisello Roselló,1 E. Folch Puy,1 A. Lopez,2 A. Rolo,3 C. Castro,2 C. Palmeira,3 A. Garcia-Gil,4 R. Adam,2 J. Roselló-Catafau.1

    1Experimental Pathology, Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain; 2Hepato-Biliare,, Hôpital Paul Brousse, INSERM U-776,Université Paris Sud, Paris, France; 3Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; 4Liver Surgery, Hospital Clínico, Zaragoza, Spain; 5Research Unit of Biology and Molecular Anthropology Applied to Development and Health (UR12ES11), Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

    Ischemia reperfusion injury(IRI) is a major cause of graft non-function following liver transplantation (LT). Mitochondrial dysfunction plays a central role in preventing liver IRI), associated…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Clearance of Transaminases During Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion.

    M. Bral,1 N. Aboelnazar,2 B. Gala-Lopez,2 S. Hatami,2 D. Freed,1 A. Shapiro.1

    1Department of Transplant Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 2Department of Experimental Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    One of the most promising applications of normothermic ex vivo liver perfusion is the possibility of real-time graft viability assessment. Many liver biomarkers are considered…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    The Use of an Haemoglobin Based Oxygen Carrier in a Human Liver Model of Normothermic Machine Perfusion.

    Y. Boteon,1 R. Laing,1 R. Bogal,1 D. Neil,2 A. Smith,2 B. Stephenson,2 A. Schlegel,2 S. Hübscher,2 D. Mirza,2 S. Afford,1 H. Mergental.2

    1Center of Liver Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2Liver Unit Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Normothermic machine perfusion of the liver (NMP-L) is a novel technique that preserves liver grafts in an environment that mimics physiological conditions and therefore enables…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Proteasome Modulation an Effective Strategy to Ameliorate Steatotic Liver Grafts Viability After Preservation.

    M. Zaouali,1 A. Panisello Roselló,1 T. Carbonell,2 A. Garcia-Gil,3 A. Lopez,4 R. Adam,4 J. Rosello-Catafau.1

    1Patología Experimental, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; 2Phisiology, Fac. of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 3Transplantation, Hospital Clínico, Zaragoza, Spain; 4Hepato- Biliare Unit, Hôpital Paul Brousse, INSERM U-776, Université Paris Sud, Paris, France

    Recently we provided evidence for a possible protective role of proteasome inhibition during liver graft preservation. Although, several reported data confirmed that the proteolytic activity…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Prolonged Liver Ischemia Triggers Necrotic Depletion of TIM4+ Kupffer Cells to Facilitate Tissue Inflammatory Immune Activation in Liver Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury.

    H. Wang,1 S. Yue,1 M. Ni,1 R. Busittil,1 J. Kupiec-Weglinski,1 L. Lu,2 Y. Zhai.1

    1Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; 2Liver Surgery, The First affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiansu Province, China

    Although mechanisms of immune activation against liver ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) have been studied extensively, questions regarding liver resident Kupffer cells vs. infiltrating macrophages (iM[Oslash]s) remain…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    Objective Assessment of Graft Metabolism and Function During Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion.

    J. Echeverri,1 S. Cleland,2 M. Kaths,1 I. Linares,1 R. Roizales,1 N. Goldaracena,1 D. Kollmann,1 M. Hamar,1 P. Urbanellis,1 S. Ganesh,1 O. Adeyi,3 D. Grant,1 N. Selzner,4 M. Wasowicz,2 M. Selzner.1

    1Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto - Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto - Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 3Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Pathology, University of Toronto - Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; 4Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto - Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    During EVLP no objective perfusion parameters have been found to predict outcome after transplantation.Methods: Livers with 4grades of injury were perfused for 4 hours and…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Serelaxin Decreases the Severity of Cold Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury After Liver Transplantation in Mice.

    S. Kageyama, K. Nakamura, R. Busuttil, J. Kupiec-Weglinski.

    The Dumont-UCLA Transplantation Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

    Background. Extended cold preservation contributes to ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), which impairs graft function and leads to poor clinical outcomes. Serelaxin (SER), a recombinant form of…
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