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1Center of Operative Medicine, Department of Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery,Medical University Innsbruck, 2Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine,Medical University Innsbruck, 3Department of Cardiac Surgery,Medical University Innsbruck, 4Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Laboratory,Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Chapters
- 00:00Title
- 00:22Pancreas procurement
- 05:24Recipient preparation
- 09:36Vascular anastomosis
- 11:41Representative results
- 12:48Conclusion
Among abdominal solid organ transplantation, pancreatic grafts are prone to develop severe ischemia reperfusion injury-associated graft damage, leading eventually to early graft loss. This protocol describes a model of murine pancreas transplantation using a non-suture cuff technique, ideally suited for analyzing these early, deleterious damages.
