The analysis is being presented this week at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2024 (ACS 2024) in San Francisco, California , October 19-22, 2024 CHICAGO , Oct. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bridge to Life is pleased to announce an analysis of 100 cases of liver transplantations at a Portuguese Transplant Center demonstrates that the use of Hypothermic Oxygenated PErfusion (HOPE) has the potential to lower the incidence of complications and maximizes the use of donor organs with extended criteria. The analysis is presented this week at the Clinical Congress 2024 of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in San Francisco, California , October 19-22, 2024 .
"In our analysis, HOPE increased the use of marginal grafts and provided good function of the grafts in the immediate postoperative period," said Maria João Amaral, General Surgery Department - Unidade Local de Saúde de Coimbra, Portugal and principal investigator of the analysis. "In addition, there was a decrease in the non-anastomotic strictures (NAS) rate in our Center," she added. The analysis was conducted using data collected between August 2020 and July 2023 , from 100 cases of liver transplants efficiently using HOPE.
Data were analyzed from the donor, graft and recipient, and from the intra and postoperative period. The development of non-anastomotic strictures (NAS) was also analyzed after excluding patients with arterial complications and biliary cast syndrome. NAS incidence was 6.
98% (N=86) and 7.