Anji Wall, Priya Arunachalam, Eric Martinez, Richard Ruiz, Hoylan Fernandez, Johanna Bayer, Amar Gupta, Gregory J McKenna, Seung-Hee Lee, Bradley Adams, Douglas Butler, Scott Noesges, Michael Duncan, Murphy Rayle, Kara Monday, Gary Schwartz, Giuliano Testa
INTRODUCTION: Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) represents an innovative technology that improves the outcomes for liver and kidney recipients of donation after circulatory determination of death (DCD) organs but protocols for abdominal-only NRP (A-NRP) DCD are lacking in the US. METHODS: We describe the implementation and expansion strategies of a transplant-center-based A-NRP DCD program that has grown in volume, geographical reach, and donor acceptance parameters, presented as four eras...
April 2024: Clinical Transplantation