The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) s sponsoring a multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial by Prof. Dr. Georg Lurje entitled "End-ischemic hypothermic oxygenated (HOPE) or normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) compared to conventional cold storage (CCS) in donation after brain death (DBD) liver transplantation; a prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial (HOPE-NMP)".

The purpose of this study is to test the effects of end-ischemic NMP versus end-ischemic HOPE technique in a multicentre prospective randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) on ECD liver grafts in DBD liver-transplantation (HOPE-NMP). Two-hundred-thirteen (n = 213) human whole organ liver grafts will be submitted to either NMP (n = 85) or HOPE (n = 85) directly before implantation and going to be compared to a control-group of patients (n = 43) transplanted with static cold storage preserved ECD-allografts. Primary (surgical complications as assessed by the comprehensive complication index [CCI]) and secondary (graft- and patient survival, hospital costs, hospital stay) endpoints are going to be analysed.


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