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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:1350-1351
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

INVITED COMMENTARY

Hermann Reichenspurner, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, Hamburg D-20246, Germany

hcr@uke.uni-hamburg.de

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The article by Newcomb and coworkers focuses on the role of heterotopic heart transplantation in the 21st Century. The technique of heterotopic heart transplantation was developed at the University of Cape Town by Barnard and Losman [1] in 1974. However at that time, this operation was planed purely as left ventricular assist technique. Because the majority of patients had right heart failure develop in this first series of patients, the technique was later modified by also connecting the right atria and the pulmonary arteries using a vascular graft tube to extend the donor pulmonary artery and facilitate end-to-side-anastomosis [2, 3]. In the series by Newcomb and coworkers as published in this journal, the left heart assist technique was primarily used in the majority of patients. However, in this series 4 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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