Sonorheometry Device Thresholds in Liver Transplantation: An Observational Retrospective Study.

Background: Liver transplantation (LT) remains a potentially haemorrhagic procedure whose perioperative bleeding and transfusion could be better monitored using point-of-care devices. Quantra is a device based on sonorheometry to assess whole blood clot formation. Our aims were to describe Quantra parameters during LT and to study their correlations with standard laboratory parameters, and to determine Quantra cut-off values for thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogenemia and coagulation factors' deficit.

First experience of liver transplantation with type 2 donation after cardiac death in France.

Organ donation after unexpected cardiac death [type 2 donation after cardiac death (DCD)] is currently authorized in France and has been since 2006. Following the Spanish experience, a national protocol was established to perform liver transplantation (LT) with type 2 DCD donors. After the declaration of death, abdominal normothermic oxygenated recirculation was used to perfuse and oxygenate the abdominal organs until harvesting and cold storage.