Outcomes for circulatory death and brainstem death pancreas transplantation with or without use of normothermic regional perfusion.

J A Richards, J L Roberts, A Fedotovs, S Paul, S Cottee, G Defries, C J E Watson, G J Pettigrew

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Article in The British journal of surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

Donor after circulatory death in pancreas transplantation: a scoping review of the literature.Frontiers in transplantation · 2025
Pooled it
Clinical Evolution, Outcomes, and Emerging Preservation Technologies in Pancreas and Islet Transplantation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026
Review
Regulated cell death in organ transplantation: recent developments and mechanistic overview.Journal of molecular cell biology · 2026
Review
Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation from Donors after Circulatory Death in Switzerland.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
Article
Outcomes of livers from donation after circulatory death donors with extended agonal phase and the adjunct of normothermic regional perfusion.The British journal of surgery · 2023
Article
Sterile Pancreas Inflammation during Preservation and after Transplantation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
Review
From Haphazard to a Sustainable Normothermic Regional Perfusion Service: A Blueprint for the Introduction of Novel Perfusion Technologies.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2022
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

J A RichardsUniversity of Cambridge Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), University of Cambridge in Collaboration with Newcastle University and in Partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9049-5745

J L RobertsUniversity of Cambridge Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), University of Cambridge in Collaboration with Newcastle University and in Partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6578-0894

A FedotovsUniversity of Cambridge Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), University of Cambridge in Collaboration with Newcastle University and in Partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK.

S PaulUniversity of Cambridge Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), University of Cambridge in Collaboration with Newcastle University and in Partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7553-0733

S CotteeUniversity of Cambridge Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), University of Cambridge in Collaboration with Newcastle University and in Partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK.

G DefriesUniversity of Cambridge Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), University of Cambridge in Collaboration with Newcastle University and in Partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK.

C J E WatsonUniversity of Cambridge Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), University of Cambridge in Collaboration with Newcastle University and in Partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK.

G J PettigrewUniversity of Cambridge Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit (BTRU), University of Cambridge in Collaboration with Newcastle University and in Partnership with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Extracorporeal Membrane OxygenationPancreas TransplantationAdultBrain DeathFemaleGraft SurvivalHumansLipaseMaleMiddle AgedYoung AdultLipase

Identifiers

PMID34155506

DOI10.1093/bjs/znab212

PMCPMC10364865

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