Successful heterotopic heart transplantation in rat.

Schmid, C; Binder, J; Heemann, U; Tilney, N L · Microsurgery · 1994

basic_science · Level V

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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.

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