%0 Journal Article
%T Standard orthotopic heart transplantation
%A Jungschleger, Jérôme G. M.
%A Boldyrev, Sergey Yu
%A Kaleda, Vasily I.
%A Dark, John H.
%J Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery
%D 2018
%B 2018
%9 
%! Standard orthotopic heart transplantation
%K 
%X The very first clinical transplants used a technique, with anastomoses of atrium to atrium, which had been developed to allow successful canine experiments (1). A small modification by Barnard led the suture line away from the sino-atrial node. Many years later Sievers (2) described the intact right atrium, with separate caval anastomoses, now the standard procedure, with a proven decrease in need for permanent pacemakers. A further refinement, with intact left atrium and separate pulmonary venous cuff anastomoses (3), the “total orthotopic transplant" has not proven popular.
%U https://www.annalscts.com/article/view/16440
%V 7
%N 1
%P 169-171
%@ 2304-1021