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Chapters
- 00:05Introduction
- 00:39Donor Liver Procurement
- 05:10Back-Table Preparation of the Liver
- 06:02Recipient Hepatectomy
- 07:58Donor Liver Engraftment and Perioperative Management
- 11:04Results: Graft Performance, Intraoperative Vital Parameters, and the Liver Maximum Function Capacity Test
- 12:23Conclusion
In this protocol, a model of porcine orthotopic liver transplantation after static cold storage of donor organs for 20 h without the use of a veno-venous bypass during engraftment is described. The approach uses a simplified surgical technique with minimization of the anhepatic phase and sophisticated volume and vasopressor management.
