Hypothermic Oxygenated Machine Perfusion of Extended Criteria Kidney Allografts from Brain Dead Donors: Protocol for a Prospective Pilot Study

Franziska Alexandra Meister   ¹ , MD ;   Zoltan Czigany   ¹ , MD ;   Jan Bednarsch   ¹ , MD ;   Jörg Böcker   ¹ , MD ;   Iakovos Amygdalos   ¹ , MD ;   Daniel Antonio Morales Santana   ¹ , MD ;   Katharina Rietzler   ¹ ;   Marcus Moeller   ² , Prof Dr ;   René Tolba   ³ , Prof Dr ;   Peter Boor   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Wilko Rohlfs   ⁵ , Dr-Ing ;   Ulf Peter Neumann   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Georg Lurje   ¹ , MD

¹ Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany

² Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine II, University Hospital, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany

³ Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery, University Hospital, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany

⁴ Institute of Pathology, University Hospital, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany

⁵ Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany