Assessment and Transplantation of Orphan Donor Livers: A Back‐to‐Base Approach to Normothermic Machine Perfusion
Janske Reiling, Nick Butler, Andrew Simpson, Peter Hodgkinson, Catherine Campbell, David Lockwood, Kim Bridle, Nishreen Santrampurwala, Laurence Britton, Darrell Crawford, Cornelius H. C. Dejong, Jonathan Fawcett – 18 July 2020 – Globally, a large proportion of donor livers are discarded due to concerns over inadequate organ quality. Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) allows for hepatocellular and biliary viability assessment prior to transplantation and might therefore enable the safe use of these orphan donor livers.