AOPO Annual Meeting

June 14, 2022 to June 16, 2022

JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge
5350 E Marriott Dr, Phoenix, AZ 85054

The AOPO Annual Meeting brings together attendees and exhibitors under one roof to share ideas, create connections, and educate the donation and transplant community.

Annual Meeting Website: https://www.aopo.org/annual-meeting/

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Clinical Evidence

In a pre-clinical study using a porcine DCD model, Panayotova et al. sought to validate the novel technique of oxygen “pre-charge” for hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) using the LifePort Liver Transporter. The study evaluated the effects of this preservation method...

David’s Transplant Journey

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In this powerful video, we meet David, a liver recipient who shares his journey of needing a liver transplant. David speaks about the emotional and physical toll of waiting for a liver to become available, not knowing when or if he would receive that call. David takes...

Changing liver utilization and discard rates in clinical transplantation in the ex-vivo machine preservation era

Clinical Evidence

A recent review article by Azizieh et al. focused on the implementation of ex-vivo machine preservation and how it might change the perception of organ acceptability. By focusing on machine perfusion, they explored the effects of the different modalities on outcomes...

Therapeutic Hypothermia or Hypothermic Machine Perfusion (HMP) which is best for Kidney Transplant Outcomes?

Clinical Evidence

In 2023, Malinoski et al. published the results from a pragmatic, adaptive, prospective, randomized trial that was conducted between August 10, 2017, and May 21, 2020 involving six OPOs in the US. They sought to determine whether targeted mild hypothermia is as...