title: Left ventricular bypass in inbred rats--a new experimental model in microsurgery. Operative technique and hemodynamic evaluation.
abstract: The technique of heterotopic thoracic transplantation of cardiac grafts is shown. Postoperative assessment of pump performance shows that the graft was capable of taking over a significant part of the circulatory load.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006439:Hemodynamics; D008722:Methods; D008866:Microsurgery; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous / Q000401:mortality