The Use of Smartphone for Liver Graft Biopsy Assessment at the Time of Procurement
Authors
Bath, Natalie M.Wang, Xiaofei
Bledsoe, Jacob R.
Thijssen, Maximiliaan
Ahearn, Aaron
Movahedi, Babak
Bozorgzadeh, Adel
Martins, Paulo N.A.
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of PathologyDepartment of Surgery, Division of Organ Transplantation
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2018-11-01Keywords
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and EquipmentHealth Information Technology
Hepatology
Pathology
Surgery
Telemedicine
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Liver biopsy at procurement plays a crucial role in the acceptance of marginal grafts. Most organ procurements occur in hospitals that neither perform transplants nor have an experienced in-house pathologist after regular working hours. Conventional professional telepathology equipment could be used to circumvent this problem but are costly and often not widely available. By using a smartphone to acquire and transmit liver biopsies in real time to expert hepatopathologists, telepathology may potentially expedite and improve the assessment of liver graft quality. This report is the first to combine both telepathology and expert pathologist evaluation to liver transplantation.Source
Transplantation. 2018 Nov;102(11):e459-e460. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002389. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1097/TP.0000000000002389Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/49736PubMed ID
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10.1097/TP.0000000000002389