A novel system for monitoring organs for transplant.
It has been established in animal tests that this monitoring can be used as a reliable indicator of organ viability prior to implantation. The complete system has an easy-to-use interface, integrates seamlessly in a transport cool-box and conducts continuous, minimally invasive monitoring of the organ, making it a suitable tool for its intended clinical application. The system constitutes the starting point of a new line of equipment that, using custom multiprobe microsensors as core elements, will prompt the path towards new biomedical application niches in the field of microsystems.
Villa
Rosa
R
Biomedical Applications Group, National Centre of Microelectronics of Barcelona, Spain. rosa.villa@cnm.es
Mouroux
Aliette
A
Gomez
Cristina
C
D000818:Animals; D017097:Electric Impedance; D004867:Equipment Design; D008839:Microelectrodes; D008904:Miniaturization; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009926:Organ Preservation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013696:Temperature; D014022:Tissue Survival / Q000502:physiology*; D014159:Transducers; D019737:Transplants