Machine preservation of extremities

Rezaei, Majid; Rampazzo, Antonio; Gharb, Bahar Bassiri

doi:10.1111/aor.13615

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“…Second, it allows clinicians to reach a balance between oxygen needs and subdued tissue metabolism resulting in perfusate simplifications [ 28 ]. Perfusates that require red blood cells or oxygen carriers that are essential to normothermic “physiological” conditions are no longer needed to ensure adequate oxygenation of the composite tissue at +20°C, thus eliminating the potential immunogenicity of such additional components [ 39 ].…”

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Machine Perfusion Enables 24-h Preservation of Vascularized Composite Allografts in a Swine Model of Allotransplantation

Goutard,

Tawa,

Berkane

et al. 2024

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The current gold standard for preserving vascularized composite allografts (VCA) is 4°C static cold storage (SCS), albeit muscle vulnerability to ischemia can be described as early as after 2 h of SCS. Alternatively, machine perfusion (MP) is growing in the world of organ preservation. Herein, we investigated the outcomes of oxygenated acellular subnormothermic machine perfusion (SNMP) for 24-h VCA preservation before allotransplantation in a swine model. Six partial hindlimbs were procured on adult pigs and preserved ex vivo for 24 h with either SNMP (n = 3) or SCS (n = 3) before heterotopic allotransplantation. Recipient animals received immunosuppression and were followed up for 14 days. Clinical monitoring was carried out twice daily, and graft biopsies and blood samples were regularly collected. Two blinded pathologists assessed skin and muscle samples. Overall survival was higher in the SNMP group. Early euthanasia of 2 animals in the SCS group was linked to significant graft degeneration. Analyses of the grafts showed massive muscle degeneration in the SCS group and a normal aspect in the SNMP group 2 weeks after allotransplantation. Therefore, this 24-h SNMP protocol using a modified Steen solution generated better clinical and histological outcomes in allotransplantation when compared to time-matched SCS.

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Machine Perfusion Enables 24-h Preservation of Vascularized Composite Allografts in a Swine Model of Allotransplantation

Goutard,

Tawa,

Berkane

et al. 2024

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Continuous versus Pulsatile Flow in 24-Hour Vascularized Composite Allograft Machine Perfusion in Swine: A Pilot Study

Tawa

Goutard

Andrews

et al. 2023

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Metabolic Profiling of Skeletal Muscle During Ex-Vivo Normothermic Limb Perfusion

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Introduction Ex vivo normothermic limb perfusion (EVNLP) provides several advantages for the preservation of limbs following amputation: the ability to maintain oxygenation and temperature of the limb close to physiological values, a perfusion solution providing all necessary nutrients at optimal concentrations, and the ability to maintain physiological pH and electrolytes. However, EVNLP cannot preserve the organ viability infinitely. We identified evidence of mitochondrial injury (swelling, elongation, and membrane disruption) after 24 hours of EVNLP of human upper extremities. The goal of this study was to identify metabolic derangements in the skeletal muscle during EVNLP. Materials and Methods Fourteen human upper extremities were procured from organ donors after family consent. Seven limbs underwent EVNLP for an average of 41.6 ± 9.4 hours, and seven contralateral limbs were preserved at 4°C for the same amount of time. Muscle biopsies were performed at 24 hours of perfusion, both from the EVNLP and control limbs. Perturbations in the metabolic profiles of the muscle during EVNLP were determined via untargeted liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (MS) operated in positive and negative electrospray ionization modes, over a mass range of 50 to 750 Da. The data were deconvoluted using the XCMS software and further statistically analyzed using the in-house statistical package, MetaboLyzer. Putative identification of metabolites using exact mass within ±7 ppm mass error and MS/MS spectral matching to the mzCloud spectral library were performed via Compound Discoverer v.2.1 (Thermo Scientific, Fremont, CA, USA). We further validated the identity of candidate metabolites by matching the fragmentation pattern of these metabolites to those of their reference pure chemicals. A nonparametric Mann–Whitney U-test was used to compare EVNLP and control group spectral features. Differences were considered significantly different when P-value < 0.05. Results We detected over 13,000 spectral features of which 58 met the significance criteria with biologically relevant putative identifications. Furthermore we were able to confirm the identities of the ions taurine (P-value: 0.002) and tryptophan (P-value: 0.002), which were among the most significantly perturbed ions at 24 hours between the experimental and control groups. Metabolites belonging to the following pathways were the most perturbed at 24 hours: neuroactive ligand-receptor interaction (P-values: 0.031 and 0.036) and amino acid metabolism, including tyrosine and tryptophan metabolism (P-values: 0.015, 0.002, and 0.017). Taurine abundance decreased and tryptophan abundance increased at 24 hours. Other metabolites also identified at 24 hours included phenylalanine, xanthosine, and citric acid (P-values: 0.002, 0.002, and 0.0152). Discussion This study showed presence of active metabolism during EVNLP and metabolic derangement toward the end of perfusion, which correlated with detection of altered mitochondrial structure, swelling, and elongation.

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Machine preservation of extremities

Cited by 3 publications

References 49 publications

Machine Perfusion Enables 24-h Preservation of Vascularized Composite Allografts in a Swine Model of Allotransplantation

Machine Perfusion Enables 24-h Preservation of Vascularized Composite Allografts in a Swine Model of Allotransplantation

Continuous versus Pulsatile Flow in 24-Hour Vascularized Composite Allograft Machine Perfusion in Swine: A Pilot Study

Metabolic Profiling of Skeletal Muscle During Ex-Vivo Normothermic Limb Perfusion

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