Initial Poor Function and Primary Nonfunction in Deceased-Donor Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Maintaining Short Cold Ischemic Time: What Is the Influence of Poor Donor Maintenance? Notes From a Single Indian Center

Conclusion:
Poor donor maintenance as evidenced by donor acidosis and graft macrosteatosis had significant impact in developing IPF when CIT is kept short. Similar study with larger sample size is required to establish extended criteria cutoff values.

Source: Progress in Transplantation - November 20, 2016 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Das, S., Swain, S. K., Addala, P. K., Balasubramaniam, R., Gopakumar, C. V., Zirpe, D., Renganathan, K., Kollu, H., Patel, D., Vibhute, B. B., Rao, P. S., Krishnan, E., Gopasetty, M., Khakhar, A. K., Vaidya, A., Ramamurthy, A. Tags: Research Source Type: research