New strategy for liver transplantation from non-heart-beating donors.

THE shortage of donors has become a serious problem in liver transplantation (LTx). LTx from controlled non-heart-beating donors (NHBD) has been attempted. However, it has been reported that the grafts from NHBD develop primary graft nonfunction more often than those from heart-beating donors. The aim of this study was to discover a safer method to prevent ischemia and reperfusion injuries in liver grafts from NHBD.