Identifying best Cryopreservation strategy for Organ transplantation
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Background
According to WHO statistics, less than 10% demand of organs for transplantation is fulfilled, a huge research and supply-demand gap exists in this area. Clinical cryopreservation of tissues and organs from donors for transplantation to recipients is essential for conserving organs. Effective cryopreservation strategy helps in slowing down the cellular functions and preserving the physiological and biochemical structures of the organs. Commonly used cryopreservation strategies are optimal for short term storage. In case recipients are not immediately available for transplant, we need to identify the most efficient strategy for organ storage in organ banks for transplantation later.
Learning Outcome (LO)
- LO #1: Cryopreservation strategies like Static cold-storage and Machine Perfusion (MP) are the most used methods for organ storage. A comparison of efficiencies of the two methods for storing specific organs like heart and liver may provide an insight on the best available strategy for clinical applications. Inclusion of other clinical parameters like donor and recipient age, clinical conditions, storage duration etc. will be useful to analyse the data.
- LO #2: Analysing the risks involved in storing the organs for long term, and understanding the challenges involved with each of the reviewed methods will be useful to make a careful assessment.
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