Lung Preservation Using Cadaver Perfusion

Cadaver perfusion of in vivo lung storage method is evaluated with respect to time course of ischemic damage to lungs subsequently charged with providing total pulmonary function in comparison with survival and histological derangement of a lung. It, however, is limited within 2 hours due to failure of extracorporeal circulation with core cooling to 15°c by which splanchnic pooling causes reduced venous return. However, cadaver perfusion is useful to minimize an ischemic damage to a lung as a method of in vivo preservation