University Hospital Muenster

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  Orthotopic Kidney Auto-Transplantation in a Porcine Model Using 24 Hours Organ Preservation And Continuous Telemetry Wen-Jia Liu*^1,2, Lisa Ernst*², Benedict Doorschodt², Jan Bednarsch¹, Felix Becker³, Richi Nakatake², Yuki Masano², Ulf Peter Neumann^1,4, Sven Arke Lang¹, Peter Boor⁵, Isabella Lurje⁶, Georg Lurje^1,6, René Tolba², Zoltan Czigany^{1,2 1}Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, ²Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, ³Department of General-, Visceral-, and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Muenster, ⁴Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), ⁵Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, ⁶Department of Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte | Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Large animal models play an essential role in preclinical transplantation research. Due to its similarities to the clinical setup, the porcine model of orthotopic kidney auto-transplantation described in this article provides an excellent in vivo setting for the testing of organ preservation techniques and therapeutic interventions.