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Preservation of Porcine Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) Liver by Perfusion and Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
Published on: June 14, 2024
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenator assistance as "bridge" to combined heart and liver transplantation
A Dell'Amore1, L Botta, S Gallieri
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Abstract:
Heart transplantation is accepted worldwide as the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage heart disease who have a life expectancy of less than 1 year. Mechanical Cardiac assistance might be necessary as a bridge to transplantation and, in selected cases, to multiorgan transplantation. We report a successful case of a 15-day extracorporeal membrane oxygenator assistance as bridge to combined heart and liver transplantation in a young man with dilated cardiomyopathy and chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
