Novel strategy to decrease reperfusion injuries and improve function of cold‐preserved livers using normothermic ex vivo liver perfusion machine
Babak Banan, Zhenyu Xiao, Rao Watson, Min Xu, Jianluo Jia, Gundumi A. Upadhya, Thalachallour Mohanakumar, Yiing Lin, William Chapman – 5 October 2015 – Normothermic extracorporeal liver perfusion (NELP) can decrease ischemia/reperfusion injury to the greatest degree when cold ischemia time is minimized. Warm perfusion of cold‐stored livers results in hepatocellular damage, sinusoidal endothelial cell (SEC) dysfunction, and Kupffer cell activation. However, the logistics of organ procurement mandates a period of cold preservation before NELP.