Hydrogen Flush After Cold Storage as a New End‐Ischemic Ex Vivo Treatment for Liver Grafts Against Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
Ichiro Tamaki, Koichiro Hata, Yusuke Okamura, Yermek Nigmet, Hirofumi Hirao, Toyonari Kubota, Osamu Inamoto, Jiro Kusakabe, Toru Goto, Tetsuya Tajima, Junichi Yoshikawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Tatsuaki Tsuruyama, Rene H. Tolba, Shinji Uemoto – 18 August 2018 – Cold storage (CS) remains the gold standard for organ preservation worldwide, although it is inevitably associated with ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). Molecular hydrogen (H2) is well known to have antioxidative properties.