Recent Studies from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Add New Data to Allotransplantation (A Guide to the Implementation and Design of Ex Vivo Perfusion Machines for Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation).

Recent studies from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine focus on the implementation and design of ex vivo perfusion machines for vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA). The research highlights the importance of ex vivo machine perfusion (EVMP) in VCA to prolong preservation, salvage tissue, and evaluate graft viability. The study emphasizes the need for standardization in VCA EVMP to optimize procedures and advance technology for clinical translation. The findings suggest that leveraging EVMP in VCA can lead to improvements in replantation, flap salvage, and other areas of plastic surgery. [Extracted from the article]