Impact of Temperature on Porcine Liver Machine Perfusion From Donors After Cardiac Death

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• 作者：Ahmed Nassar ; Qiang Liu ; Kevin Farias ; Laura Buccini ; William Baldwin ; Ana Bennett ; Martin Mangino ; Samuel Irefin ; Jacek Cywinski ; Toshihiro Okamoto ; Teresa Diago Uso ; Giuseppe Iuppa ; Basem Soliman ; Charles Miller and Cristiano Quintini
• 刊名：Artificial Organs
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：40
• 期：10
• 页码：999-1008
• 全文大小：739K
• ISSN：1525-1594

文摘

Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) has been introduced as a promising technology to preserve and possibly repair marginal liver grafts. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of temperature on the preservation of donation after cardiac death (DCD) liver grafts in an ex vivo perfusion model after NMP (38.5°C) and subnormothermic machine perfusion (SNMP, 21°C) with a control group preserved by cold storage (CS, 4°C). Fifteen porcine livers with 60 min of warm ischemia were preserved for 10 h by NMP, SNMP or CS (n = 5/group). After the preservation phase all livers were reperfused for 24 h in an isolated perfusion system with whole blood at 38.5°C to simulate transplantation. At the end of transplant simulation, the NMP group showed significantly lower hepatocellular enzyme level (AST: 277 ± 69 U/L; ALT: 22 ± 2 U/L; P < 0.03) compared to both SNMP (AST: 3243 ± 1048 U/L; ALT: 127 ± 70 U/L) and CS (AST: 3150 ± 1546 U/L; ALT: 185 ± 97 U/L). There was no significant difference between SNMP and CS. Bile production was significantly higher in the NMP group (219 ± 43 mL; P < 0.01) compared to both SNMP (49 ± 84 mL) and CS (12 ± 16 mL) with no significant difference between the latter two groups. Histologically, the NMP livers showed preserved cellular architecture compared to the SNMP and CS groups. NMP was able to recover DCD livers showing superior hepatocellular integrity, biliary function, and microcirculation compared to SNMP and CS. SNMP showed some significant benefit over CS, yet has not shown any advantage over NMP.