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Preliminary Single-Center Canadian Experience of Human Normothermic Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion: Results of a Clinical Trial.

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A preliminary single‐center North American experience using identical NMP technology demonstrates feasibility as well as potential technical risks of NMP in a North American setting and highlights a need for larger, randomized studies.
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This article is published in American Journal of Transplantation.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 170 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Liver function & Liver transplantation.

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Observations on the ex situ perfusion of livers for transplantation.

TL;DR: Evaluation of bile pH may offer a valuable insight into bile duct integrity and risk of posttransplant ischemic cholangiopathy, as well as a combination of transaminase release, glucose metabolism, lactate clearance, and maintenance of acid‐base balance.
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Outcomes of DCD liver transplantation using organs treated by hypothermic oxygenated perfusion before implantation

TL;DR: 5-year graft survival in donation after cardiac death livers treated by conventional cold storage, or by 1-2 h of hypothermic oxygenated perfusion (HOPE) after cold storage suggests that a simple end-ischaemic perfusion approach is very effective and may open the field for safe utilisation of extended DCD liver grafts.
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Novel Real-time Prediction of Liver Graft Function During Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion Before Liver Transplantation

TL;DR: Assessment of flavin, a marker of mitochondrial complex I injury, in the perfusate provides a fast prediction of liver graft function and loss during ex situ MP before implantation, which may have high clinical relevance, as liver grafts from extended DBD or DCD donors carry considerable risks for recipients.
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Controlled Oxygenated Rewarming of Cold Stored Livers Prior to Transplantation: First Clinical Application of a New Concept.

TL;DR: This first clinical application suggests that controlled graft rewarming after cold storage is a feasible and safe method in clinical praxis and might become an adjunct in organ preservation.
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Sanguineous normothermic machine perfusion improves hemodynamics and biliary epithelial regeneration in donation after cardiac death porcine livers

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) on the postreperfusion hemodynamics and extrahepatic biliary duct histology of donation after cardiac death (DCD) livers after transplantation have not been addressed thoroughly and represent the objective of this study.
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The role of normothermic extracorporeal perfusion in minimizing ischemia reperfusion injury

TL;DR: Normothermic machine perfusion might transpire to be the ideal vehicle to deliver other therapeutic interventions during preservation to modulate and optimize the graft before transplantation by restoring function in marginal donor organs and enabling the clinician to appraise its viability, the donor pool might be greatly expanded.
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Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Ischemic-Type Biliary Lesions following Liver Transplantation.

TL;DR: The risk factors and mechanisms leading to ITBLs following LT are reviewed, including Liver grafts from suboptimal or extended-criteria donors are more susceptible to cold and warm I-R injury and develop more easilyITBLs than normal livers.
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Protection of bile ducts in liver transplantation: looking beyond ischemia.

TL;DR: Current and emerging insight in the pathogenesis of NAS and potential targets to reduce biliary injury and preserve bile ducts are discussed in this overview.
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