Safety and Efficacy of Perioperative Remodulin® in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Recipients

Summary

Patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplant will experience some degree of clinical and/or biochemical hepatic dysfunction. This early injury is known as primary graft dysfunction and varies from minor abnormalities to primary nonfunction. Prostaglandin-class drugs, including prostacyclin and its analogs, could represent an important advance toward the goal of reducing transplant related morbidity, mortality and associated costs by providing these benefits.

Timeline

Start

2008-06

Primary completion

2010-06

Completion

2010-06

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.