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.
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*