The ARANMP-LT study is a multicenter, open-label, randomized, parallel-group, non-inferiority clinical trial designed to evaluate whether avoiding graft recooling after normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) improves early outcomes following liver transplantation. Although graft recooling before implantation is common practice, experimental and preliminary clinical evidence suggests that abrupt temperature changes may contribute to ischemia-reperfusion injury. Adult recipients of deceased-donor liver grafts preserved with NMP or sequential hypothermic-normothermic machine perfusion (SHNMP) will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either standard graft implantation with recooling using cold preservation solution (control group) or implantation without recooling using a room-temperature 5% albumin flush immediately before reperfusion (intervention group). The primary objective is to compare the incidence of Early Allograft Dysfunction (EAD), defined according to the Olthoff criteria, between the two treatment groups. Secondary objectives include evaluation of histopathological ischemia-reperfusion injury using the Suzuki score, vascular and biliary complications, primary non-function, post-reperfusion syndrome, patient and graft survival, length of intensive care unit and hospital stay, perioperative transfusion requirements, and safety outcomes. A total of 170 participants will be enrolled across multiple Italian liver transplant centers and followed for 90 days after transplantation.
Age range
18 Years
Sex
ALL
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Early Allograft Dysfunction (EAD)
Timeframe: Within 7 days after liver transplantation