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NATCO Annual Meeting
February 25, 2024 to February 28, 2024 Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort9800 Hyatt Resort DrSan Antonio, TX 78251 NATCO is dedicated to advancing education, promoting certifications, and furthering the professional development of donation and transplant professionals...
AOPO Annual Meeting
June 24, 2024 to June 26, 2024 JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa23808 Resort PkwySan Antonio, TX 78261 AOPO advances organ donation and transplantation by driving continual improvement of the donation process, collaborating with stakeholders, and...
Machine Perfusion or Cold Storage in Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation
In 2009, Moers et al. published the largest ever randomized controlled trial comparing paired kidneys that were either subjected to hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) or cold storage (CS). This study included 336 kidney pairs that were randomized to either the HMP...
American Transplant Congress
June 1, 2024 to June 5, 2024 Pennsylvania Convention Center1101 Arch StPhiladelphia, PA 19106 The American Transplant Congress is a joint annual meeting for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the American Society of Transplantation (AST). It brings...
The Promise of Hypothermic Machine Perfusion for Liver Allografts
As the gap between the supply and demand of available liver allografts for transplant continues to grow, technologies in place for organ preservation and organ resuscitation ahead of transplant continue to be explored and refined. The accepted methods of static cold...
1-Year Kidney Transplant Outcomes Superior with Pressure-Driven Machine Perfusion
A team from Warsaw Medical University, Poland, has reported results from a prospective, randomized, trial comparing Organ Recovery System’s LifePort®, a pressure driven (PD) device, with Waters Medical Systems’ RM3, a flow driven (FD) device.1 This is the first time...
Benefits of Hypothermia in Organ Preservation
Michael J. Taylor Ph.D F.Soc Cryobiol.Vice President R&D, Cell and Tissues Systems, N. Charleston, SC, USA and Adjunct Professor, Mech Engineering. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. It is universally recognized that hypothermia has provided the bed-rock...
Hypothermic Machine Perfusion — Cost-Effective Compared with Cold Storage
An abstract presented at the American Transplant Congress (ATC) in May 2013 by Dr. Victoria Gomez et al. evaluated the budgetary impact and incremental cost-effectiveness of hypothermic machine perfusion compared with static cold storage.1 Kidneys transplanted from...
US Study Shows Significantly Lower Rates of DGF and Better Graft Survival in Machine Perfused Compared with Cold Stored Kidneys (N=52,052)
A study by Cannon et al. published in the April 2013 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in delayed graft function (DGF) in kidneys preserved with machine perfusion compared with static cold...
LifePort Offers Gentle, Pressure-Controlled Pulsatile Perfusion
Pumping a donor kidney with the LifePort Kidney Transporter preserves and protects the organ in a number of ways before it is transplanted. One of the most important features is the use of gentle, pulsatile pressure waves to ensure that cold preservation solution is...