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Impact of portable normothermic blood-based machine perfusion on outcomes of liver transplant. The OCS Liver PROTECT randomized clinical trial.

2 May 2022
Randomized clinical trials Transplantation
Markmann JF, Aboulijoud MS, Ghobrial RM, Bhati CS, Pelletier SJ, Lu AD et al.

JAMA Surg 2022; 157: 189-198.

Of 293 patients included, machine perfusion reduced the rate of early graft dysfunction (18 versus 31 per cent, P=0.01), and improved use of the liver from donors after cardiac death (51 versus 26 per cent, P=0.007).

Comment: Increasing evidence of the value of this technology.

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