Aleah L Brubaker, Marty T Sellers, Peter L Abt, Kristopher P Croome, Shaheed Merani, Anji Wall, Phillipe Abreu, Musab Alebrahim, Roy Baskin, Humberto Bohorquez, Robert M Cannon, Kelly Cederquist, John Edwards, Benjamin G Huerter, Mark J Hobeika, Lori Kautzman, Alan N Langnas, David D Lee, Joao Manzi, Ahmed Nassar, Nikole Neidlinger, Trevor L Nydam, Gabriel T Schnickel, Farjad Siddiqui, Ashley Suah, Raeda Taj, C Burcin Taner, Giuliano Testa, Rodrigo Vianna, Frederick Vyas, Martin I Montenovo
IMPORTANCE: Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) is an emerging recovery modality for transplantable allografts from controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) donors. In the US, only 11.4% of liver recipients who are transplanted from a deceased donor receive a cDCD liver. NRP has the potential to safely expand the US donor pool with improved transplant outcomes as compared with standard super rapid recovery (SRR). OBJECTIVE: To assess outcomes of US liver transplants using controlled donation after circulatory death livers recovered with normothermic regional perfusion vs standard super rapid recovery...
April 3, 2024: JAMA Surgery