Amelia J Hessheimer, Elisabeth Coll, Ferrán Torres, Patricia Ruíz, Mikel Gastaca, José Ignacio Rivas, Manuel Gómez, Belinda Sánchez, Julio Santoyo, Pablo Ramírez, Pascual Parrilla, Luis Miguel Marín, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Bravo, Juan Carlos García-Valdecasas, Javier López-Monclús, Andrea Boscá, Rafael López-Andújar, Jiliam Fundora-Suárez, Jesús Villar, Álvaro García-Sesma, Carlos Jiménez, Gonzalo Rodríguez-Laíz, Laura Lladó, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Manuel Barrera, Ramón Charco, Jose Ángel López-Baena, Javier Briceño, Fernando Pardo, Gerardo Blanco, David Pacheco, Beatriz Domínguez-Gil, Víctor Sánchez Turrión, Constantino Fondevila
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Although there is increasing interest in its use, definitive evidence demonstrating a benefit for postmortem normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) in controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) liver transplantation is lacking. The aim of this study was to compare results of cDCD liver transplants performed with postmortem NRP vs. super-rapid recovery (SRR), the current standard for cDCD. METHODS: This was an observational cohort study including all cDCD liver transplants performed in Spain between June 2012 and December 2016, with follow-up ending in December 2017...
April 2019: Journal of Hepatology