Assessment of hemodynamic and blood parameters that may reflect macroscopic quality of porcine kidneys during normothermic machine perfusion using whole blood.

The immediately assessed macroscopic aspects of examined kidneys correlated with hemodynamic parameters, increased lactate and lower AST in this study. In the future, NMP with whole blood could be a useful tool to extend the donor pool by allowing the assessment of otherwise unknown characteristics of marginal kidneys before transplantation.