Luminal Preservation Protects the Small Intestine in a Brain-dead Rat Model.
Transplant Direct 2022;
8:e1378. [PMID:
36176723 PMCID:
PMC9514830 DOI:
10.1097/txd.0000000000001378]
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Abstract
Intestinal transplantation depends on donation after brain death (DBD). Luminal preservation (LP) has been beneficial against preservation injury in previous studies in animal models, but none include DBD. This study aims to investigate whether these benefits occur also with DBD.
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