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Routh D, Naidu S, Sharma S, Ranjan P, Godara R. Changing pattern of donor selection criteria in deceased donor liver transplant: a review of literature. J Clin Exp Hepatol 2013; 3:337-46. [PMID: 25755521 PMCID: PMC3940395 DOI: 10.1016/j.jceh.2013.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2013] [Accepted: 11/18/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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During the last couple of decades, with standardization and progress in surgical techniques, immunosuppression and post liver transplantation patient care, the outcome of liver transplantation has been optimized. However, the principal limitation of transplantation remains access to an allograft. The number of patients who could derive benefit from liver transplantation markedly exceeds the number of available deceased donors. The large gap between the growing list of patients waiting for liver transplantation and the scarcity of donor organs has fueled efforts to maximize existing donor pool and identify new avenues. This article reviews the changing pattern of donor for liver transplantation using grafts from extended criteria donors (elderly donors, steatotic donors, donors with malignancies, donors with viral hepatitis), donation after cardiac death, use of partial grafts (split liver grafts) and other suboptimal donors (hypernatremia, infections, hypotension and inotropic support).
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Key Words
- CIT, cold ischemia time
- DCD, donation after cardiac death
- DGF, delayed graft function
- ECD, extended criteria donor
- ECMO, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation
- HBIg, hepatitis B immune globulin
- HBV, hepatitis B virus
- HCV, hepatitis C virus
- HIV, human immunodeficiency virus
- HTLV, human T-lymphotropic virus
- LDLT, living donor liver transplantation
- LT, liver transplantation
- MELD, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease
- NRP, normothermic regional perfusion
- PNF, primary nonfunction
- SLT, split liver transplantation
- SOFT, survival outcomes following liver transplantation
- SRTR, Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
- donor pool
- extended criteria donor
- liver transplantation
- mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors
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Affiliation(s)
- Dronacharya Routh
- Department of GI Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Army Hospital (R&R), New Delhi 110010, India
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- Department of GI Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Army Hospital (R&R), New Delhi 110010, India,Address for correspondence: Sudeep Naidu, Professor and Head, Department of GI Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Army Hospital (R&R), New Delhi 110010, India. Tel.: +91 (0) 9999454052.
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- Department of GI Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Army Hospital (R&R), New Delhi 110010, India
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- Department of GI Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Army Hospital (R&R), New Delhi 110010, India
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- Department of Surgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rhotak, Haryana, India
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Ostróżka-Cieślik A, Dolińska B, Ryszka F. Influence of the selected antioxidants on the stability of the Celsior solution used for perfusion and organ preservation purposes. AAPS PharmSciTech 2009; 10:468-75. [PMID: 19381826 DOI: 10.1208/s12249-009-9232-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2008] [Accepted: 03/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The purpose of the following research was to improve the original Celsior solution in order to obtain a higher degree of stability and effectiveness. The solution was modified by the addition of selected antioxidants such as vitamin C, cysteine, and fumaric acid in the following concentrations: 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 mmol/l. The solution's stability was estimated using an accelerated stability test based on changes in histidine concentrations in the solution using Pauly's method for determining concentrations. Elevated temperatures, the factor accelerating substances' decomposition reaction rate, were used in the tests. The research was conducted at four temperatures at intervals of 10 degrees C: 60 +/- 0.2 degrees C, 70 +/- 0.2 degrees C, 80 +/- 0.2 degrees C, and 90 +/- 0.2 degrees C. It was stated that the studied substances' decomposition occurred in accordance with the equation for first-order reactions. The function of the logarithmic concentration (log%C) over time was revealed to be rectilinear. This dependence was used to determine the kinetics of decomposition reaction rate parameters (the rate constant of decomposition k, activation energy E (a), and frequency factor A). On the basis of these parameters, the stability of the modified solution was estimated at +5 degrees C. The results obtained show that the proposed antioxidants have a significant effect on lengthening the Celsior solution's stability. The best results were reached when combining two antioxidants: vitamin C and cysteine in 0.5 mmol/l concentrations. As a result, the Celsior solution's stability was lengthened from 22 to 299 days, which is 13.5 times. Vitamin C at a concentration of 0.5 mmol/l increased the solution's stability by 5.2 times (t(90) = 115 days), cysteine at a concentration of 0.5 mmol/l caused a 4.4 times stability increase (t(90) = 96 days), and fumaric acid at a concentration of 0.5 mmol/l extended the stability by 2.1 times (t(90) = 48 days) in relation to the original solution.
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Durand F, Renz JF, Alkofer B, Burra P, Clavien PA, Porte RJ, Freeman RB, Belghiti J. Report of the Paris consensus meeting on expanded criteria donors in liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2008; 14:1694-707. [PMID: 19025925 DOI: 10.1002/lt.21668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Because of organ shortage and a constant imbalance between available organs and candidates for liver transplantation, expanded criteria donors are needed. Experience shows that there are wide variations in the definitions, selection criteria, and use of expanded criteria donors according to different geographic areas and different centers. Overall, selection criteria for donors have tended to be relaxed in recent years. Consensus recommendations are needed. This article reports the conclusions of a consensus meeting held in Paris in March 2007 with the contribution of experts from Europe, the United States, and Asia. Definitions of expanded criteria donors with respect to donor variables (including age, liver function tests, steatosis, infections, malignancies, and heart-beating versus non-heart-beating, among others) are proposed. It is emphasized that donor quality represents a continuum of risk rather than "good or bad." A distinction is made between donor factors that generate increased risk of graft failure and factors independent of graft function, such as transmissible infectious disease or donor-derived malignancy, that may preclude a good outcome. Updated data concerning the risks associated with different donor variables in different recipient populations are given. Recommendations on how to safely expand donor selection criteria are proposed.
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- François Durand
- Hepatology and Liver Intensive Care, Hospital Beaujon, University Paris 7, Clichy, France
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't Hart NA, der van Plaats A, Leuvenink HGD, van Goor H, Wiersema-Buist J, Verkerke GJ, Rakhorst G, Ploeg RJ. Determination of an adequate perfusion pressure for continuous dual vessel hypothermic machine perfusion of the rat liver. Transpl Int 2007; 20:343-52. [PMID: 17326775 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2006.00433.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) provides better protection against ischemic damage of the kidney compared to cold-storage. The required perfusion pressures needed for optimal HMP of the liver are, however, unknown. Rat livers were preserved in University of Wisconsin organ preservation solution enriched with acridine orange (AO) to stain viable cells and propidium iodide (PI) to detect dead cells. Perfusion pressures of 12.5%, 25% or 50% of physiologic perfusion pressures were compared. Intravital fluorescence microscopy was used to assess liver perfusion by measuring the percentage of AO staining. After 1-h, the perfusion pressure of 12.5% revealed 72% +/- 3% perfusion of mainly the acinary zones one and two. The perfusion pressure of 25% and 50% showed complete perfusion. Furthermore, 12.5% showed 14.7 +/- 3.6, 25% showed 3.7 +/- 0.9, and 50% showed 11.2 +/- 1.4 PI positive cells. One hour was followed by another series of experiments comprising 24-h preservation. In comparison with 24-h cold-storage, HMP at 25% showed less PI positive cells and HMP at 50% showed more PI positive cells. In summary, perfusion at 25% showed complete perfusion, demonstrated by AO staining, with minimal cellular injury, shown with PI. This study indicates that fine-tuning of the perfusion pressure is crucial to balance (in)complete perfusion and endothelial injury.
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- Nils A 't Hart
- Surgery Research Laboratory, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Cavallari A, Cillo U, Nardo B, Filipponi F, Gringeri E, Montalti R, Vistoli F, D'amico F, Faenza A, Mosca F, Vitale A, D'amico D. A multicenter pilot prospective study comparing Celsior and University of Wisconsin preserving solutions for use in liver transplantation. Liver Transpl 2003; 9:814-21. [PMID: 12884193 DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Primary dysfunction (PDF) still occurs after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Celsior solution (CS) might offer some advantages over the conventional University of Wisconsin (UW) solution for organ preservation, but to date, this has not been prospectively evaluated in the context of OLT. In this prospective, randomized, multicenter, pilot study, 215 potential liver donors were enrolled and randomized. In 42 cases, the livers were unsuitable for transplantation; therefore, 173 randomized livers ultimately were implanted after perfusion and cold preservation with CS (n = 83) or UW solution (n = 90). In accord with the indications of the CS manufacturing company, total CS infusion volume was 90 mL/kg, greater than that of UW solution (60 mL/kg). The main aim of the study is to compare the prevalence of PDF between the two groups. Donor and recipient variables were similar in the two groups. Episodes of PDF were numerically lower in the CS (2.4%) than UW group (7.8%), but the difference was not statistically significant. There was a trend toward a lesser need for early re-OLT (<30 days) in the CS group (P =.0507), but again, no statistically significant difference emerged. Overall and time-differentiated postoperative deaths also were similar. One-year actuarial patient (UW, 89% v CS, 87%) and graft (UW, 83% v CS, 85%) survival rates were similar. In conclusion, CS was similar to UW solution as a preservation solution in the clinical setting of OLT at the infusion volumes described, although some theoretical advantages of CS composition suggest that CS might prove a valid alternative to UW preservation solution in multiorgan harvesting, including the liver. A study on a larger patient basis is needed.
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- Antonino Cavallari
- Dipartimento di Discipline Chirurgiche, Rianimatorie e dei Trapianti Policlinico S Orsola, University of Bologna, Italy
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Janssen H, Janbetaen PH, Broelsch CE. Celsior solution compared with University of Wisconsin solution (UW) and histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate solution (HTK) in the protection of human hepatocytes against ischemia-reperfusion injury. Transpl Int 2003. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2003.tb00341.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Straatsburg IH, Abrahamse SL, Song SW, Hartman RJ, Van Gulik TM. Evaluation of rat liver apoptotic and necrotic cell death after cold storage using UW, HTK, and Celsior. Transplantation 2002; 74:458-64. [PMID: 12352902 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200208270-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND The benefit of Celsior in liver graft preservation is controversial. In the isolated perfused rat liver model, we compared the effects of Celsior, University of Wisconsin (UW), and histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate (HTK) preservation solutions on liver cell death. METHODS Rat livers were stored at 4 degrees C for 0, 8, 16, or 24 hr in either Celsior, UW, or HTK and reperfused for 90 min (37 degrees C). Bile secretion and perfusate levels of liver enzymes and histone-associated DNA fragments were measured. Apoptosis and oncotic necrosis were analyzed in biopsies by DNA gel electrophoresis, hematoxylin and eosin histology, and enzyme histochemistry for lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and 5'-nucleotidase (5'-NT). RESULTS Perfusate flow rate through the liver during perfusion did not significantly differ among preservation solutions. Bile secretion was best preserved in UW livers after 16-hr (versus HTK livers) and 24-hr storage (versus HTK and Celsior livers). Enzyme leakage from UW livers was lower compared with HTK livers after 8-hr storage (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT], LDH) and with Celsior and HTK livers after 16-hr (SGOT, LDH) and 24-hr storage (SGOT, serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase, LDH, purine nucleoside phosphorylase). In situ LDH and 5'-NT activities were best preserved in UW livers (up to 24 hr), whereas enzyme activities declined remarkably in HTK livers (after 8 hr) and Celsior livers (after 16 hr of cold storage). Although perfusate DNA fragment levels were repeatedly lowest from Celsior livers, apoptotic DNA laddering and the number of fragmented nuclei in hematoxylin and eosin sections was not different among livers after 8, 16, or 24 hr of storage. CONCLUSIONS Celsior and UW are equally effective in preventing rat liver cell death after 0-16 hr of cold preservation as compared with the less effective HTK solution. After 24-hr cold storage, rat livers were best preserved in UW. Furthermore, there was no significant difference in mode of cell death (apoptosis or oncotic necrosis) after storage in any of the three solutions.
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- Irene H Straatsburg
- Surgical Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Uhlmann D, Armann B, Ludwig S, Escher E, Pietsch UC, Tannapfel A, Teupser D, Hauss J, Witzigmann H. Comparison of Celsior and UW solution in experimental pancreas preservation. J Surg Res 2002; 105:173-80. [PMID: 12121704 DOI: 10.1006/jsre.2002.6408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND The University of Wisconsin solution (UW) is the gold standard for pancreas preservation. Celsior (CEL) was formulated specifically for heart preservation. Recently, experimental and clinical experience has been reported on the application of CEL to abdominal organs. In this animal study, pancreas preservation with CEL was compared with that in UW solution. PATIENTS AND MATERIALS Heterotopic, allogeneic pancreaticoduodenal transplantation was performed in female Göttingen Minipigs (n = 12 donors, n = 12 recipients). The grafts were flushed and stored for 6 h at 4 degrees C in UW or CEL. The recipients were randomized into two groups receiving either UW (n = 6)- or CEL (n = 6)-preserved grafts with a follow-up of 5 days. Blood flow (laser Doppler), partial oxygen tension, histological changes, endothelin-1 (plasma, immunohistochemistry), lipase, amylase, trypsinogen activation peptide, and C-reactive protein (CRP) were measured. RESULTS Partial oxygen tension was lower in the CEL group (P < 0.05). However, blood flow did not differ between UW- and CEL-preserved organs. The histomorphologic analysis of the pancreatic grafts revealed significantly less edema in the UW-preserved organs. Serum levels of amylase, lipase, CRP, and TAP taken from the central venous blood were comparable in the two groups, except for higher amylase values 36 h after reperfusion in the CEL group compared to the UW group (P < 0.05). Likewise, TAP taken from the portal venous effluent of the graft was found to be higher in the CEL group than in UW (P < 0.05). Endothelin-1 serum levels rose significantly during reperfusion without differences between the two groups. ET-1 immunohistochemistry revealed increased local ET-1 during reperfusion in all grafts. However, the ET-1 immunostaining in the CEL group was more pronounced than that in the UW group (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that CEL solution is not as effective in preventing pancreatic ischemia/reperfusion damage as the standard UW solution in experimental pancreas transplantation. Increased ET-1 immunostaining and reduced p(ti)O(2) in the CEL group indicate increased microcirculatory damage in the CEL group.
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- Dirk Uhlmann
- 2nd Department of Surgery, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Cascales P, Fernandez V, Tomas A, Sanchez del Campo F, Gonzalez F, Tascon E, Lumbreras B, Gonzalez J. Comparison of UW and Celsior solutions in experimental liver preservation by assessment of alpha-glutathione sulfotransferase. Transplant Proc 2002; 34:53. [PMID: 11959182 DOI: 10.1016/s0041-1345(01)02663-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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- P Cascales
- Department of Human Anatomy, School of Medicine, University Miguel Hemández, San Juan, Alicante, Spain
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Hauet T, Goujon JM, Vandewalle A. To what extent can limiting cold ischaemia/reperfusion injury prevent delayed graft function? Nephrol Dial Transplant 2001; 16:1982-5. [PMID: 11572883 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.10.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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