Retrograde oxygen persufflation preservation of human livers: A pilot study

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 358-364

  Treckmann, Jürgen ^a   Minor, Thomas ^b   Saad, Stefano ^c   Özcelik, Arzu ^a   Malagó, Massimo ^a   Broelsch, Christoph Erich ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER PRESERVATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OXYGENATION; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; RETRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBECTOMY;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; COLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION; OXYGEN; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 41149161605     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21373     Document Type: Article

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