Advances in the preservation of steatotic liver graft / 中华肝胆外科杂志

ABSTRACT

More and more studies have been focusing on marginal donor livers, such as steatotic liver grafts, to alleviate donor shortage and reduce mortality from waiting lists. Poor tolerance of streatotic liver grafts often leads to primary graft nonfunction, early dysfunction, and postoperative vascular and biliary complications. Some studies have shown that moderate and severe macrosteatosis livers can be used for transplantation with rigorous selection of recipients. In this paper, techniques such as venous systemic oxygenated persufflation, hypothermic oxygenated perfusion, subnormothermic machine perfusion, normothermic machine perfusion, improved liver quality, and steatotic liver grafts transplantation were discussed.