Addressing the donor liver shortage with EX VIVO machine perfusion

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 279-297

  Izamis, Maria Louisa ^a   Berendsen, Tim A ^a   Uygun, Korkut ^a   Yarmush, Martin L ^a,b  

^a SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothermic; Machine perfusion; Normothermic; Subnormothermic; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864027010     PISSN: 20402295     EISSN: 20402309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/2040-2295.3.2.279     Document Type: Review

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