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Open AccessNoninvasive measurement of 13Carbon turnover for evaluation of porcine renal grafts during ex vivo machine perfusion
Kidney transplantation suffers from a shortage of donor organs. Despite this, a lot of grafts are discarded due to inadequate quality. As many kidneys are afflicted by transient filtration failure early after ...
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Liver steatosis in pre-transplant liver biopsies can be quantified rapidly and accurately by nuclear magnetic resonance analysis
Donor livers marginally acceptable or acceptable according to extended criteria are more frequently transplanted due to the growing discrepancy between demand and availability of donor organs. One type of marg...
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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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Open AccessOxygen persufflation as adjunct in liver preservation (OPAL): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Early graft dysfunction due to preservation/reperfusion injury represents a dramatic event after liver transplantation. Enhancement of donor organ criteria, in order to cope with the ever increasing donor shor...
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Polylactide (LTS) causes less inflammation response than polydioxanone (PDS): a meniscus repair model in sheep
Incidence of meniscus injury has increased in today’s active society. Arthroscopical refixation yields better results than partial meniscectomy. The best healing rates are achieved by sutures. As non-degradabl...
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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...
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The effects of allopurinol and SOD on lipid peroxidation and energy metabolism in the liver after ischemia in an aerobic/anaerobic persufflation
This study was aimed at examining the vulnerability of the liver to oxygen-free radicals upon reoxygenation after prolonged ischemia. Livers from male Wistar rats were first flushed with Ringer's and Euro-Coll...