Highlights from the Turin international workshop on liver machine perfusion

Damiano Patrono1, Nicola De Stefano1, Paulo N Martins2

  • 1General Surgery 2U - Liver Transplant Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, University of Torino, Turin, Italy.

Artificial Organs
|September 23, 2022
PubMed

The 1st Turin international workshop on liver machine perfusion, which was held in Turin (Italy) on June 10th-11th, 2022, gathered more than 50 key opinion leaders and more than 220 delegates from 11 countries. The purpose of the meeting was discussing several aspects of liver machine perfusion in liver transplantation, including the state of the art, real-world clinical indications, and potential developments of this technology. We herein provide a brief summary of the evidence, perspectives and controversies presented during the meeting.

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