Results in liver transplantation using grafts from donors after controlled circulatory death: A single-center experience comparing donor grafts harvested after controlled circulatory death to those harvested after brain death.

Background: In recent years, interest in donation after cardiac death (DCD) has increased. Although DCD liver transplantation (LT) has demonstrated satisfactory long-term outcomes, different studies have shown poorer patient and graft survival after DCD than after donation after brain death (DBD). This study aimed to evaluate the results of LT using controlled DCD (cDCD) donors, specifically the incidence of primary non-function and ischemic cholangiopathy (IC), and to compare these results with those of LT using DBD in the same time period.

Normothermic regional perfusion vs. super-rapid recovery in controlled donation after circulatory death liver transplantation.

Background & Aims: Although there is increasing interest in its use, definitive evidence demonstrating a benefit for postmortem normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) in controlled donation after circulatory death (cDCD) liver transplantation is lacking. The aim of this study was to compare results of cDCD liver transplants performed with postmortem NRP vs. super-rapid recovery (SRR), the current standard for cDCD.