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Ischemic Preconditioning of Liver in Cadaver Donors

NCT00245830 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2015-01-19

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Summary

The long-term goals of this proposal are to develop clinical protocols of donor preconditioning to improve liver graft function and ameliorate complications of poor graft function after liver transplantation. Achievement of these objectives would improve liver recipient outcomes, increase utilization of livers and alleviate the current critical shortage of livers for transplantation. More stringent liver donor selection intended to decrease the complications of poor graft function conflicts directly with efforts to maximize the use of donor livers. Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) of liver attenuates hepatic ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) in animals. Preliminary data show hepatic IPC effectively decreases IRI following hepatic resection in humans.

The specific aims of this project are: AIM 1: To test the hypothesis that 10 minutes of hepatic ischemic preconditioning in deceased donors would improve liver graft function and decrease injury in the early post transplant period. AIM 2: To test the hypothesis that ischemic preconditioning of deceased donor livers would decrease systemic inflammatory response in liver recipients in the early post transplant period. AIM 3: To examine whether ischemic preconditioning of deceased donor livers decreases early post transplant pulmonary edema and acute rejection and shortens hospital stay.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Ischemic Preconditioning

Experimental: Hepatic Ischemic Preconditioning blood flow to the liver will be cut off by hilar clamping for ten minutes followed by release of the clamp prior to removal of the liver from the donor.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Baburao Koneru, M.D. · UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-10-31
Primary Completion
2006-07-31
Completion
2007-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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