Testing Secretin to Improve Donated Liver Quality
This trial tests whether adding a hormone called secretin to a machine that preserves donated livers outside the body can improve liver quality and transplant outcomes. You may qualify if you're an adult receiving a standard deceased-donor liver transplant that needs special preservation techniques.
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Who can take part
- You must be 18 years or older
- You are receiving a single, whole liver from a deceased donor (not a split or living-donor liver)
- Your liver will be preserved using a specialized machine perfusion process before transplant
- You are not receiving other organs in the same transplant
- The liver donor did not donate after euthanasia
- Your liver has not been preserved using other perfusion techniques before enrollment
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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