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. 2024 Jan 24;10(2):e1574. doi: 10.1097/TXD.0000000000001574

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of CHLT procedure patients.

Patients Case 1 Case 2 Case 3
Sex Male Male Male
Calculated MELD 32 11 42
Procedure Heart transplant and liver transplant Heart transplant and liver transplant CABG and liver transplant
Transplant date January 29, 2023 October 19, 2022 May 8, 2023
Age at transplant, y 58 54 63
Donor organ type DBD DBD DBD
Machine perfusion start January 28, 2023 20:25 October 19, 2022 8:25 May 8, 2023 5:37
Machine perfusion end January 29, 2023 1:56 October 19, 2022 16:27 May 8, 2023 13:02
Total pump time (h) 5.52 8.03 7.42
Share distance (NM) 198 458 257
UNOS “CIT” (h) 8.77 8.72 9.25
Recipient WIT (h) 0.43 0.37 0.5
Total liver preservation time (h) 9.2 9.08 9.75
Actual CIT (h) 3.25 0.69 1.83
Final hepatic artery flow on pump (L/min) 0.58 0.79 0.53
Total OR time (h) 11.6 10.6 8.7
Intraoperative RBC (units) 9 5 15
Intraoperative FFP (units) 5 3 13
Intraoperative PLTs (units) 8 1 4
Intraoperative cryo (units) 0 2 2
INR post 7 d 1.3 1.1 0.9
Bilirubin post 7 d (mg/dL) 0.7 0.6 1.2
Cr at 48 h post (mg/dL) 1.26 0.84 2.03
Discharged February 24, 2023 November 9, 2022 May 24, 2023

CABG, coronary artery bypass graft; CHLT, combined heart-liver transplantation; Cr, creatinine; cryo, cryoprecipitate; DBD, donation after brain death; FFP, fresh–frozen plasma; INR, international normalization ratio; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; NM, nautical miles; OR, operative time; PLT, platelets; RBC, red blood cells; UNOS “CIT”, United Network of Organ Sharing cold ischemia time (defined as donor cross clamp until recipient recirculation); WIT, warm ischemia time.