Successful heterotopic heart transplantation in rat.
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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Surgical Research Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
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D000005:Abdomen; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D000818:Animals; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D016042:Transplantation, Heterotopic / Q000379:methods*