Normothermic Ex vivo perfusion provides superior organ preservation and enables viability assessment of hearts from DCD donors

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 371-380

  Iyer, A ^a,b   Gao, L ^a   Doyle, A ^a   Rao, P ^a   Cropper, J R ^b   Soto, C ^b   Dinale, A ^b   Kumarasinghe, G ^a,b   Jabbour, A ^a,b   Hicks, M ^a,b,c   Jansz, P C ^b,d   Feneley, M P ^a,b,d   Harvey, R P ^a,c,d   Graham, R M ^a,b,d   Dhital, K K ^a,b,d   MacDonald, P S ^a,b,d  

^a VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

animal models: porcine, donors and donation; basic (laboratory) research science; donation after circulatory death; heart (allograft) function dysfunction; heart transplantation cardiology; injury; ischemia reperfusion; organ perfusion and preservation; organ procurement and allocation; translational research science

Indexed keywords

CELSIOR; LACTIC ACID; DISACCHARIDE; ELECTROLYTE; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUTATHIONE; HISTIDINE; MANNITOL; PRESERVATION SOLUTION;

ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART DEATH; HEART GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PERFUSION; HEART RHYTHM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN PERFUSION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; COLD; DEATH; DONOR; HEART; ISCHEMIA; PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PROCEDURES; TISSUE SURVIVAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD TEMPERATURE; DEATH; DISACCHARIDES; ELECTROLYTES; GLUTAMATES; GLUTATHIONE; HEART; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTIDINE; MANNITOL; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORGAN PRESERVATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION SOLUTIONS; PERFUSION; SUS SCROFA; TISSUE DONORS; TISSUE SURVIVAL; WARM ISCHEMIA;

EID: 84921476071     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.12994     Document Type: Article

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