Title and Copyright:
Ex-Corporeal Pig Liver Perfusion, ©1998.

Media:
Adobe Illustrator.

Collaborator:
Jonathan Fryer, MD; Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Northwestern University; Chicago, Illinois.

Description:
The ex-corporeal porcine liver perfusion uses pigs that are transgenic for human complement regulatory proteins to bridge patients in severe hepatic failure to successful liver transplantation. An extracorporeal circuit perfuses blood from the femoral vein, incorporates a centrifugal pump and a tissue oxygenator which lead to the porcine liver (which is kept in a sterile temperature controlled environment at the bedside), and then returns the blood to the patient through the jugular vein.

Published as:
Mora N, Kaptanoglu L, Zhang Z, et. al. Single vs dual vessel porcine extracorporeal liver perfusion. J Surg Res 2002; 103: 228-35.

Abecassis MM, Blei AT, Flamm S, Fryer JP. Liver transplantation. In: Stuart FP, Abecassis MM, Kaufman DB, eds. Organ Transplantation. Georgetown: Landes Bioscience, 2000: 174.

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