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Successful heterotopic heart transplantation in rat
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.