Organ Preservation

"Organ Preservation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The process by which organs are kept viable outside of the organism from which they were removed (i.e., kept from decay by means of a chemical agent, cooling, or a fluid substitute that mimics the natural state within the organism).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Organ Preservation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Organ Preservation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Organ Preservation" by people in Profiles.
  1. Discovery research in physiologically maintained deceased. Science. 2025 May; 388(6746):473-476.
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  2. Clinical Outcomes With Normothermic Pulsatile Organ Perfusion in Heart Transplantation: A Report From the OCS Heart Perfusion Registry. Circulation. 2025 Apr; 151(13):896-909.
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  3. Impact of Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion on Inpatient Cost: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of the US Nationwide Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Database. Clin Transplant. 2025 Feb; 39(2):e70096.
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  4. The 2024 American Association for Thoracic Surgery expert consensus document: Current standards in donor lung procurement and preservation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2025 Feb; 169(2):484-504.
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  5. Preservation of Cardiac Xenografts in a Model of Infant Human Cardiac Transplantation. Xenotransplantation. 2025 Jan-Feb; 32(1):e70009.
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  6. Normothermic Regional Perfusion Experience of Organ Procurement Organizations in the US. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 01; 7(10):e2440130.
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  7. A Survey of United States Transplant Center Donation After Circulatory Death Kidney Transplant Practices in the Modern Era. Transplant Proc. 2024 Oct; 56(8):1712-1720.
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  8. Providing red blood cells to facilitate organ transplant via normothermic perfusion techniques: A single-center experience. Transfusion. 2024 Oct; 64(10):1899-1908.
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  9. Deceased donor kidney function and branched chain amino acid metabolism during ex vivo normothermic perfusion. Kidney Int. 2024 Oct; 106(4):712-722.
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  10. Consensus Statement: Technical Standards for Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion. Ann Thorac Surg. 2024 10; 118(4):778-791.
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