ArticleComparative medicine2014
Novel cuff design to facilitate anastomosis of small vessels during cervical heterotopic heart transplantation in rats.
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- Validation of Novel Microsurgical Vessel Anastomosis Techniques: A Systematic Review.Journal of reconstructive microsurgery · 2025Pooled it
- Cardiac unloading models for myocardial reverse remodeling.Basic research in cardiology · 2026Review
- Rat Heterotopic Heart Transplantation Model to Investigate Unloading-Induced Myocardial Remodeling.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2016Review
- A new simplified volume-loaded heterotopic rabbit heart transplant model with improved techniques and a standard operating procedure.Journal of thoracic disease · 2015Article
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Abstract
Cervical heterotopic heart transplantation in rodents is a useful tool for studying transplantation immunology. However, end-to-end anastomosis of small-diameter vessels by using standard microsurgical technique is technically difficult and can require prolonged graft ischemia. A novel cuff system was designed from polyethylene tubing to allow anastomosis of vessels with internal luminal diameters of 0.3 to 0.9 mm. Key features include a spring-like adjustable lumen to facilitate vessel eversion, a barb to hold vessel ends in place after eversion, and a handling system that allows easy manipulation and stabilization of cuffs by a single operator. After a training period, a single operator performed a series of 8 transplants in which the mean warm ischemic time of grafts was 8.5 ± 2.9 min. Here we provide a detailed description of how to construct and perform end-to-end vessel anastomosis by using our novel cuff system. The discussion of the technique is supplemented with tips learned during the process of developing a reliable experimental model.
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