Assessment of Deceased Brain Dead Donor Liver Grafts via Normothermic Machine Perfusion: Lactate Clearance Time Threshold Can Be Safely Extended to 6 Hours

The incorporation of machine preservation technology into clinical solid-organ transplantation is becoming a routine procedure in many institutions around the globe. As experience with these modalities accrues over time, it is important to refine their application. In combination with laboratory based NMP experiments, early patient series allowed us to establish NMP viability criteria that were applied in the VITTAL trial.