Indocyanine green clearance test in liver transplantation: defining cut-off levels for graft viability assessment during organ retrieval and for the prediction of post-transplant graft function recovery - the Liver Indocyanine Green (LivInG) Trial Study Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Viability assessment of the graft is essential to lower the risk of liver transplantation (LT) failure and need for emergency retransplantation, however, this still relies mainly on surgeon's experience. Post-LT graft function recovery assessment is also essential to aid physicians in the management of LT recipients and guide them through challenging decision making.This study aims to trial the use of indocyanine green clearance test (IGT) in the donor as an objective tool to assess graft viability and in the recipient to assess graft function recovery after LT.

Methods and analysis

This is an observational prospective single-centre study on consecutive liver transplant donors and recipients.

Primary objective

To determine the capability of IGT of predict

SUBMITTER: Coppola A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9345038 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature