Table 1.
Left and right ventricular pre- and afterload were kept stable throughout the experiments. Values are given as mean of T2-T8 (ex vivo perfusion) for the aortic pressure and mean of T3-T8 (working heart perfusion) pulmonary artery and atrial pressure.
| group | autologous perfusion (conrol) | auto. vs. cp40 | xeno-perfusion (control) | xeno-p. vs. cp40 | cp40 | |||||
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| parameter | abbreviation | units | mean | SD | p | mean | SD | p | mean | SD |
| mean aortic pressure mmHg | MAP | mmHg | 68 | ±5 | 0,50 | 59 | ±7 | 0.32 | 63 | ±5 |
| mean pulmonary artery pressure mean | MPAP | mmHg | 15 | ±4 | 0.12 | 10 | ±1 | 0.19 | 11 | ±1.2 |
| mean left atrial pressure | LAP | mmHg | 7.5 | ±1.5 | 0.615 | 11 | ±2 | 0.10 | 9.2 | ±0.9 |
| mean right atrial pressure | RAP | mmHg | 5.2 | ±0.2 | 0.15 | 6 | ±1 | 0.22 | 5.4 | ±0.2 |