Minimization of Ischemic Cholangiopathy in Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Transplantation: Is It Thrombolytic Therapy or Warm Ischemic Time Stringency and Donor Bile Duct Flush?

E Giorgakis; S E Khorsandi; W Jassem; N Heaton

doi:10.1111/ajt.14429

Minimization of Ischemic Cholangiopathy in Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Transplantation: Is It Thrombolytic Therapy or Warm Ischemic Time Stringency and Donor Bile Duct Flush?

Am J Transplant. 2018 Jan;18(1):274-275. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14429. Epub 2017 Aug 14.

Authors

E Giorgakis^{1

2}, S E Khorsandi², W Jassem², N Heaton²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Transplant Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ.
² Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital, London, UK.

PMID: 28710889
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14429

No abstract available

Keywords: clinical research/practice; liver transplantation/hepatology; organ procurement; organ transplantation in general; thrombolytic therapy/thrombolysis.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Bile Ducts
Death
Humans
Liver Transplantation*
Thrombolytic Therapy
Tissue Donors
Warm Ischemia*