TY - JOUR AU - Jungschleger, Jérôme G. M. AU - Boldyrev, Sergey Yu AU - Kaleda, Vasily I. AU - Dark, John H. PY - 2018 TI - Standard orthotopic heart transplantation JF - Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Vol 7, No 1 (January 31, 2018): Heart Transplantation Y2 - 2018 KW - N2 - 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. UR - https://www.annalscts.com/article/view/16440