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Abstract

Medicine

Left Lung Orthotopic Transplantation in a Juvenile Porcine Model for ESLP

Published: February 14th, 2022

DOI:

10.3791/62979

1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, 2Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, 3Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, 4Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, 5Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute (SMRI), University of Alberta, 6Alberta Transplant Institute, 7Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program

Abstract

Lung transplantation is the gold-standard treatment for end-stage lung disease, with over 4,600 lung transplantations performed worldwide annually. However, lung transplantation is limited by a shortage of available donor organs. As such, there is high waitlist mortality. Ex situ lung perfusion (ESLP) has increased donor lung utilization rates in some centers by 15%-20%. ESLP has been applied as a method to assess and recondition marginal donor lungs and has demonstrated acceptable short- and long-term outcomes following transplantation of extended criteria donor (ECD) lungs. Large animal (in vivo) transplantation models are required to validate ongoing in vitro research findings. Anatomic and physiologic differences between humans and pigs pose significant technical and anesthetic challenges. An easily reproducible transplant model would permit the in vivo validation of current ESLP strategies and the preclinical evaluation of various interventions designed to improve donor lung function. This protocol describes a porcine model of orthotopic left lung allotransplantation. This includes anesthetic and surgical techniques, a customized surgical checklist, troubleshooting, modifications, and the benefits and limitations of the approach.

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Keywords Left Lung Orthotopic Transplantation

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