Successful heterotopic heart transplantation in rat
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Rat Heterotopic Abdominal Heart/Single-lung Transplantation in a Volume-loaded Configuration
Published on: May 29, 2015
C Schmid1, J Binder, U Heemann
1Surgical Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Microsurgery
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Heterotopic heart transplantation in rats has become a substantial tool for numerous investigations. This report describes a surgical technique of infrarenal heterotopic heart transplantation with a prodigious surgical success rate which was developed over many years of practice. Difficulties arising from anatomic variations are depicted and alternative approaches are discussed.
