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The imbalance between organ supply and demand continues to limit the broader benefits of organ transplantation. Machine perfusion (MP) may increase the supply of donor livers by expanding the use of extended-criteria donors. Using the United Network for Organ Sharing/Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the Standard Transplant Analysis and Research dataset, we reviewed the effect of MP implementation on the behavior of transplant centers. We identified 15 high-utilizing MP centers that were matched to suitable controls based on volume and geographical proximity. We conducted a differences-in-differences analysis using linear regression to estimate the impact of MP adoption on the transplant centers' donor utilization. We found a significant increase in cold ischemia time and organs with donor warm ischemia time over 30 minutes (P < .05). After removing one outlier center, the analysis showed that these centers through MP accepted overall more donation after circulatory death donors, donation after circulatory death donors over 50 years old, donors with macrovesicular steatosis greater than 30% on liver biopsy, and donor warm ischemia time over 30 minutes (P < .05). MP has allowed centers to expand their use of extended-criteria donors beyond traditional cutoffs and to increase patient access to liver transplantation.
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