Thursday, February 23, 2012

Machine Perfusion or Cold Storage in Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation

3-year follow-up shows that machine perfusion (as compared to cold-storage preservation) reduces delayed graft function in kidney donated after either brain death or circulatory death, but it improves graft survival only of kidneys donated after brain death, especially in kidneys recovered from expanded-criteria donors (read more : FREE full text access) Print this post

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