ORGAN-PRESERVING COMPOSITION COMPRISING AN EXTRACELLULAR HEMOGLOBIN FROM ARENICOLIDAE AND USES THEREFOF

摘要

The invention relates to the use of a composition comprising at least one globin, one globin protomer or one extracellular hemoglobin of Annelida, a stabilizing solution and/or a solution for conserving organs, said composition having a temperature of between 0° C. and 37° C., for preserving an organ in a donation after brain death donor or a donation after cardiac death donor. The invention also relates to a method for conserving an organ in situ in a donation after brain death donor or a donation after cardiac death donor using normothermic ECMO or double-balloon triple-lumen catheter techniques or any other similar technique.