• Keiji Yamanashi, Aizhou Wang, Catherine A Bellissimo, Gabriel Siebiger, Paolo Oliveira, Yu Zhang, Juan Montagne, Guillermo Garza, Nadav Furie, Prodipto Pal, Mingyao Liu, Ewan C Goligher, Shaf Keshavjee, and Marcelo Cypel.
• Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Thoracic and Cardio-Vascular Surgery, Nara Medical University School of Medicine, Kashihara, Japan.
• J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2024 Sep 23.

ObjectivesHypothermic lung preservation at 10 °C has been recently shown to enhance quality of healthy donor lungs during ischemia. This study aims to show generalizability of the 10 °C lung preservation using an endotoxin-induced lung injury with specific focus on the benefits of post-transplant lung function and mitochondrial preservation.MethodsLipopolysaccharide (3 mg/kg) was injected intratracheally in rats to induce lung injury. Injured lungs were flushed with preservation solution and allocated to 3 groups (n = 6 each): minimum cold storage, 6-hour storage on ice (ice), and 6-hour storage at 10 °C (10 °C). Left lungs were transplanted and reperfused for 2 hours. After storage, lung tissue was used to evaluate the effects of hypothermic storage on the mitochondrial function: mitochondrial membrane potential was assessed by JC-1 staining; mitochondrial oxygen consumption was assessed using high-resolution respirometry.ResultsTwo hours after reperfusion, the oxygen tension/inspired oxygen fraction ratio from the graft was significantly greater in the 10 °C group than in the Ice group (P = .015), whereas the wet-to-dry weight ratio was significantly lower (P = .041). Levels of interleukin-8 in lung tissues were significantly lower in the 10 °C group than in the Ice group (P = .004). Mechanistically, we noted greater mitochondrial membrane potential and elevated state III respiration in the 10 °C group than in the Ice group (P = .015 and P = .002, respectively), implying higher metabolic activities may be maintained during 10 °C preservation.ConclusionsFavorable metabolism during 10 °C preservation prevented ischemia-induced mitochondrial damages in injured lungs, leading to better post-transplant outcomes.Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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