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How do you determine which patients are good candidates to have their organ receive machine perfusion therapy before implantation?

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Hepatology · Mount Sinai Hospital

Machine perfusion is being used more and more for DCD grafts resulting in less incidence for ischemic cholangiopathy, thus allowing more DCD organs to be considered and used. Transplant programs are using machine perfusion for more complicated surgical cases such as retransplants and in order to uti...

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