Normothermic liver preservation: Is it time to come in from the cold?

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-9

  D'Alessandro, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DAMAGE; CELL METABOLISM; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; DONOR SELECTION; EDITORIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY PRESERVATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER PRESERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD ISCHEMIA; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; REPERFUSION INJURY; TISSUE DONORS; WARM ISCHEMIA;

EID: 68249103655     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SLA.0000356933.31181.8f     Document Type: Editorial

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