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Articles tagged "Preservation"

  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Proteomics Reveals Molecular Window and Metabolism of Normothermically Perfused Human Kidneys

    A. Weissenbacher1, H. Huang2, A. Thorne3, L. M. Lo Faro3, J. Hunter3, R. Ploeg3, C. C. Coussios4, P. J. Friend3, B. Kessler5

    1Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, 2Nuffield Department o Medicine, Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 5Nuffield Department o Medicine, Target Discovery Instituteiscovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: We have shown that 24h normothermic kidney perfusion (NKP) with urine recirculation (URC) is superior to non URC for maintaining homeostasis previously. However, the…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of an Intra-Abdominal Cooling Device during Open Kidney Transplantation in Pigs

    A. Longchamp1, R. P. Meier2, N. Colucci3, A. Balaphas3, L. Orci3, A. Nastasi3, G. Longchamp1, S. Moll4, A. Klauser5, F. Lazeyras5, M. Pascual6, J. Corpataux7, L. Bühler8

    1Department of Vascular Surgery, CHUV, Lausannne, Switzerland, 2Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 3Department of Surgery, HUG, Geneva, Switzerland, 4Department of Pathology, HUG, Geneva, Switzerland, 5Department of Radiology, HUG, Geneva, Switzerland, 6Department of Transplantation, CHUV, Lausannne, Switzerland, 7Department of Vascular Surgery, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland, 8Department of Surgery, CHUV, Lausannne, Switzerland

    *Purpose: Renal transplantation is the preferred treatment for end-stage renal disease. Currently, there is a large gap between the supply and demand for transplantable kidneys.…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Cryopreservation Allows for Extended Graft Survival in a Rat Orthotopic Hind Limb Model

    S. A. Fidder1, B. Oh1, F. Messner1, G. Furtmueller1, K. Helke2, E. Greene3, Z. Chen3, L. Campbell3, G. Brandacher1, K. Brockbank3

    1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2Department Of Comparative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 3Tissue Testing Technologies LLC, Charleston, SC

    *Purpose: Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) is a viable reconstructive option for devastating tissue defects. The growth of the field is restrained by the limited ischemia…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    First Experience For Cold Storage Of Donor Hearts With Paragonix SherpaPak

    L. Stastny1, M. Kofler1, D. Höfer1, G. Pölzl2, R. Breitkopf3, M. Grimm1, H. Antretter1, J. Dumfarth1

    1Cardiac Surgery, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 2Internal Medicine, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 3Intensive Care Unit, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    *Purpose: Preservation of donor organs is a crucial component for the maintenance of viability after explantation. The current standard for transporting a donor organ includes…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Unsuccessful Resuscitative Thoracotomy Patients Are Potential Kidney Donors

    K. Prins1, H. B. Moore1, A. Sauaia1, R. Choudhury1, R. C. McIntyre1, A. Cralley2, S. Urban1, E. E. Moore2, E. A. Pomfret1, T. L. Nydam1

    1University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, 2Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO

    *Purpose: Renal transplantation remains the most effective therapy in patients with end-stage renal disease, offering exceptional survival benefits and quality of life improvement. However, a…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Redox State of HMGB1 Drives Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Human Liver Transplantation

    R. A. Sosa1, A. Q. Terry1, J. Nevarez-Mejia1, M. Rossetti1, B. V. Naini1, V. M. Groysberg1, F. M. Kaldas2, R. W. Busuttil2, D. W. Gjertson1, J. W. Kupiec-Weglinski2, E. F. Reed1

    1Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    *Purpose: Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) is a major risk factor of acute and chronic graft rejection in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) involving a complex interplay between…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Partial Freezing: Subzero Whole Liver Preservation In The Presence Of Ice

    S. E. Cronin1, C. A. Pendexter1, R. J. deVries1, S. Kimura2, S. Ozer1, P. D. Banik1, S. Nagpal1, H. Yeh2, S. N. Tessier1, K. Uygun1, M. Toner1

    1Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 2Transplant Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    *Purpose: We aim to develop a protocol to bank organs for several days, enabling global organ matching and potentially the utilization of organs unusable with…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Normothermic Regional Perfusion of Kidneys: A Single Non-Retrieval Centre Experience

    R. Pearson, C. Geddes, M. Clancy, J. Asher

    Renal Transplant, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    *Purpose: With the aim of safely expanding the pool of usable donors from circulatory death (DCD) there is increasing interest in normothermic regional (NRP) perfusion…
  • 2019 American Transplant Congress

    Combined Thoracic-Liver Transplants Using Normothermic Machine Perfusion for Liver Preservation: A Case Series

    M. Rizzari, K. Crombez, S. Nagai, J. Stracke, A. Al-Kurd, K. Collins, A. Yoshida, M. Abouljoud

    Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI

    *Purpose: There is minimal data describing combined thoracic-liver transplants (tx) with normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) used for liver preservation as the thoracic tx is done.…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    One-Pump versus Two-Pump Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion Machines in Discarded Human Livers

    A. Hassan, Q. Liu, D. Pezzati, A. Nassar, B. Soliman, M. Blum, P. Grady, G. Iuppa, T. Uso, J. Fung, K. Abu-Elmagd, C. Quintini.

    Transplant Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland.

    Introduction:Physiologic flows and pressures need to be provided by the ex vivo liver perfusion device. We hypothesized that the 1-pump designed machines would provide the…
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