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Optimized outcomes for renal allografts with cold ischemic times of 20 h or greater
Prolonged cold ischemia time (CIT) has been associated with inferior graft survival in kidney transplantation (KT). The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of prolonged CIT on short- and long-term out...
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Kidney transplantation from non-heart-beating donors after oxygenated low-flow machine perfusion preservation with histidine–tryptophan–ketoglutarate solution
The aim of this study was to determine the potential benefit of aerobic machine preservation (MP) with non-colloidal histidine–tryptophan–ketoglutarate (HTK) solution compared with MP with Belzer machine perfu...
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Heparin and phentolamine combined, rather than heparin alone, improves hepatic microvascular procurement in a non-heart-beating donor rat-model
Improvement of organ procurement from non-heart-beating donors (NHBDs) could increase the donor organ pool for liver transplantation. Whether anti-coagulative and anti-vasospastic substances can improve hepat...
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Effects of taurine on liver preservation in UW solution with consecutive ischemic rewarming in the isolated perfused rat liver
Taurine (2-aminoethane sulfonic acid) is a physiologic amino acid involved in cellular osmoregulation in various species including man. This study was intended to compare the respective effects of cold storage...