A metabolic index of ischemic injury for perfusion-recovery of cadaveric rat livers.

With over 110,000 patients waiting for organ transplantation, the current crisis in organ transplantation is based on a lack of donors after brain-death (DBD). A very large alternative pool of donor organs that remain untapped are the donors after cardiac death (DCD), recovered after cardiac activit...

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Main Authors: Sinem Perk, Maria-Louisa Izamis, Herman Tolboom, Basak Uygun, Francois Berthiaume, Martin L Yarmush, Korkut Uygun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3237452?pdf=render