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. 2013 Jan 17;5(1):7–14. doi: 10.1136/heartasia-2012-010160

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Cervical heart transplantation using the cuff technique after preservation of the heart in various different solutions at 4°C. (A) Cervical heart transplantation performed using the cuff technique. (B) Evaluation of the beating rate of preserved heart-grafts 24 h after transplantation. (C) Analysis of heart injury markers (CPK and lactase dehydrogenase (LDH)) in the sera of rats that had received preserved heart transplants. *<0.01 for solution, **<0.05 for solution by one-way analysis of variance. EC, Euro-Collins; ETK, extracellular-trehalose-Kyoto solution; HTK, histidin-tryptophan-ketoglutarat solution; UW, University of Wisconsin.