HEPATIC XANTHINE LEVELS AS VIABILITY PREDICTOR OF LIVERS PROCURED FROM NON-HEART-BEATING DONOR PIGS1

Abstract

It is suggested that xanthine content in the donor is able to predict survival after transplantation. Xanthine is significantly involved in the hepatic lesion elicited by warm ischemia and subsequent ischemia-reperfusion associated to liver transplantation from a NHBD.