Therapeutic hypothermia in brain-dead organ donors has been shown to reduce delayed graft function in kidney recipients after transplantation. Data are needed on the effect of hypothermia as compared ...

Since early 2023, it has become standard practice at Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen (UMCG) to perform virtually all hour-long liver transplants during daytime. This is possible because donor ...

Every transplant begins as a race against time. Once an organ leaves the body, its condition begins to decline. For decades, static cold storage, where an organ is placed on ice, has been the standard ...

"We have an available organ." Thousands of people never live long enough to hear those words. In fact, in the United States, 13 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant that never comes.

The perfusion technique developed at UMCG to test the quality of donor livers led to a record number of liver transplants last year. Not only in Groningen, but throughout the Netherlands. Meanwhile, ...

Since early 2023, it has become standard practice at UMCG to perform virtually all hour-long liver transplants during daytime. This is possible because donor livers can be preserved for much longer ...