sponsored program
A CME accredited activity on "Current Issues in Organ Preservation" is available. This course is jointly sponsored by CTI and the University of Kentucky. For more information, click here.

Audio Conference Materials
The very successful and educational on demand audio conference has now concluded. These slides were presented with narration from  Dr.’s John Fung and Richard Mangus.

Analysis and Review of Clinical and Scientific Findings of Preservation Solutions to Minimize Donor Organ Damage

Strategies for Maximizing Outcomes in Liver Transplantation

Organ Preservation with Histidine-Tryptophan-Ketoglutarate (HTK) Solution: Clinical Results

Case Studies
Recent case studies by doctors using Custodiol HTK solution.

Dr. Richard Mangus -Multivisceral transplantation consists of the simultaneous transplantation of the liver, stomach, pancreas, duodenum and small intestine. At our center, these organs are procured as a cluster graft and transplanted into a recipient who has had all of these same native organs resected. Read More...

Dr. Bijan Eghtesad - The patient is a 56-year-old woman with a history of chronic pancreatitis. She developed hepatic artery aneurysm and underwent repair of the aneurysm with subsequent thrombosis of the artery. Then she developed intrahepatic bilomas and repeated bouts of cholangitis and sepsis requiring hospitalization and chronic antibiotherapy. Read More...

James V. Guarrera, MD. - The patient is a 60-year old man with a history of Hepatitis C cirrhosis complicated by encephalopathy, ascites, variceal bleeding and splenomegaly with thrombocytopenia. A 42-year old blood group compatible donor was identified in Tennessee. The donor had a history of polycystic kidney disease. Read More...