Charité Organ Recovery Unit

Our State of the art ex-vivo Multiorgan RESUSCITATION and preconditioning unit

first of its kind

We are the first organ recovery unit in Europe to provide state of the art ex-vivo multiorgan (kidney and liver) and multimodal (normothermic, hypothermic and controlled oxygenated rewarming) organ preconditioning and repair.

VitaSmart – Bridge to Liffe

The VitaSmart device provides multiorgan (liver and kidney) capabilities for ex-vivo hypothermic machine perfusion. In Germany this device was firstly introduced and implemented into routine clinical practise at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Liver Assist – XVIVO

The LiverAssist device provides capabilities for hypothermic, normothermic and combined forms of ex-vivo machine perfusion (controlled oxygenated rewarming – COR) a technique pioneered by the Groningen group.

Kidney Assist – XVIVO

The KidneyAssist device is the only CE-marked device for normothermic ex-vivo machine perfusion for kidney allografts. In Germany this device was firstly introduced and implemented into routine clinical practise at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Metra – Organox

The OrganOx metra is the only CE-marked device for upfront and back-to-base normothermic ex-vivo machine perfusion of liver allografts. At Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin this device is used for the HOPE-NMP multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial.