Viability assessment and transplantation of fatty liver grafts using end‐ischemic normothermic machine perfusion.

Journal

Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society
ISSN: 1527-6473
Titre abrégé: Liver Transpl
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 100909185

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Oct 2022
Historique:
received: 23 05 2022
accepted: 08 09 2022
medline: 10 5 2023
pubmed: 10 5 2023
entrez: 9 5 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

End-ischemic viability testing by normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) represents an effective strategy to recover liver grafts having initially been discarded for liver transplantation (LT). However, its results in the setting of significant (≥30%) macrovesicular steatosis (MaS) have not been specifically assessed. Prospectively maintained databases at two high-volume LT centers in Northern Italy were searched to identify cases of end-ischemic NMP performed to test the viability of livers with MaS ≥ 30% in the period from January 2019 to January 2022. A total of 14 cases were retrieved, representing 57.9% of NMP and 5.7% of all machine perfusion procedures. Of those patients, 10 (71%) received transplants. Two patients developed primary nonfunction (PNF) and required urgent re-LT, and both were characterized by incomplete or suboptimal lactate clearance during NMP. PNF cases were also characterized by higher perfusate transaminases, lower hepatic artery and portal vein flows at 2 h, and a lack of glucose metabolism in one case. The remaining eight patients showed good liver function (Liver Graft Assessment Following Transplantation risk score, -1.9 [risk, 13.6%]; Early Allograft Failure Simplified Estimation score, -3.7 [risk, 2.6%]) and had a favorable postoperative course. Overall, NMP allowed successful transplantation of 57% of livers with moderate-to-severe MaS. Our findings suggest that prolonged observation (≥6 h) might be required for steatotic livers and that stable lactate clearance is a fundamental prerequisite for their use.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37160074
doi: 10.1002/lt.26574
pii: 01445473-990000000-00044
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

508-520

Auteurs

Damiano Patrono (D)

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

Riccardo De Carlis (R)

Department of General Surgery and Transplantation Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano NiguardaMilanItaly.

Alessandro Gambella (A)

Pathology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences University of TurinTurinItaly.

Francesca Farnesi (F)

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

Alice Podestà (A)

Department of General Surgery and Transplantation Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano NiguardaMilanItaly.
School of Medicine and Surgery University of Milano-BicoccaMilanItaly.

Andrea Lauterio (A)

Department of General Surgery and Transplantation Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano NiguardaMilanItaly.
School of Medicine and Surgery University of Milano-BicoccaMilanItaly.

Francesco Tandoi (F)

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

Luciano De Carlis (L)

Department of General Surgery and Transplantation Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano NiguardaMilanItaly.
School of Medicine and Surgery University of Milano-BicoccaMilanItaly.

Renato Romagnoli (R)

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

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