Assessment of hemodynamic and blood parameters that may reflect macroscopic quality of porcine kidneys during normothermic machine perfusion using whole blood.

Purpose: Using ex vivo normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) with whole blood we assessed marginal porcine kidneys under reperfusion. The aim was to link measureable machine and clinical blood parameters with the currently used visual assessment. This could serve as a baseline for a standardized evaluation score to identify potentially transplantable kidneys in the future.