At the ESOT 2011 meeting held in Glasgow, we were delighted to sponsor an educational symposium titled: Is there a role for machine perfusion in expanding ECD kidney programmes?

Held late November in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the 11^th Congress of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement (ISODP) brought together a number of world experts and key opinion leaders to take part in discussions on challenging topics including the management and organization of donation and transplantation processes.

Protection of the endothelium is proposed to be one of the key mechanisms responsible for the demonstrated benefits of machine perfusion in reducing the incidence of DGF and improving graft survival.

Organ Recovery Systems has set up an office in São Paulo responsible for distribution of the family of Organ Recovery Systems products to Brazil, and other South American markets.

Study results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine show that 3-year graft survival is significantly greater in all transplanted kidneys machine perfused in the LifePort^® Kidney Transporter compared to those stored in a traditional box of ice (static cold storage) (91% vs. 87%, p=0.04).