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Articles tagged "Liver preservation"

  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    A Proof of Concept for Liver Graft Modification Using Warm Ex Vivo Perfusion – “It Is Not Just About Rescuing Marginal Grafts”.

    N. Goldaracena, J. Echeverri, N. Selzner, D. Grant, J. Feld, M. Selzner.

    Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Background: The active metabolism during normothermic ex vivo liver perfusion (NEVLP) offers a new opportunity to use the preservation time for graft modification and repair…
  • 2017 American Transplant Congress

    First Report of Human Liver Transplantation After Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP) in the United States.

    Q. Liu, B. Soliman, G. Iuppa, A. Nassar, A. Hassan, T. Diago Uso, K. Hashimoto, F. Aucejo, M. Fujiki, B. Eghtesad, J. Cywinski, S. Irefin, J. Fung, K. Abu-Elmagd, C. Miller, C. Quintini.

    Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland

    NMP is a novel preservation method for liver grafts. We transplanted 10 human livers after NMP to test the safety and feasibility of NMP on…
  • 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…
  • 2016 American Transplant Congress

    Metabolic Recovery and Ex Vivo Simulation of Early Liver Reperfusion.

    B. Bruinsma,1 J. Avruch,2 G. Sridharan,1 P. Weeder,1 N. Karimian,1 J. Markmann,2 K. Uygun,1 H. Yeh.2

    1Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; 2Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

    Purpose. An urgent need for more liver grafts for transplantation has prompted the use of more suboptimal organs. Particularly in these more marginal livers adequate…
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