Abstract The American Society of Transplant Surgeons supports efforts to increase the
number of organs that are critically needed for patients desperately awaiting transplantation …

Donor organs are exposed to sequential temperature changes during the transplantation
process. The role of donor warm ischemia and cold ischemia times on post-transplant …

Prompted by the utilization of extended criteria donors, dual hypothermic oxygenated
machine perfusion (D-HOPE) was introduced in liver transplantation to improve …

Background Retransplantation candidates are disadvantaged owing to lack of good-quality
liver grafts. Strategies that can facilitate transplantation of suboptimal grafts into retransplant …

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors are an increasingly more common source of
livers for transplantation in many parts of the world. Events that occur during DCD liver …

Abstract The British Transplantation Society (BTS)'Guideline on transplantation from
deceased donors after circulatory death'has recently been updated and this manuscript …

Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is a major obstacle after lung transplantation (LTx),
associated with increased early morbidity and mortality. Studies in liver and kidney …

Background During the donor hepatectomy time (dHT), defined as the time from the start of
cold perfusion to the end of the hepatectomy, liver grafts have a suboptimal temperature …

The standard approach to organ preservation in liver transplantation is by static cold storage
and the time between the cross-clamping of a graft in a donor and its reperfusion in the …

Background. Outcomes of liver transplantation (LT) from donation after circulatory death
(DCD) have been improving; however, ischemic cholangiopathy (IC) continues to be a …