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Heterotopic thoracic cardiac xenotransplantation with the recipient baboon heart to the right and the porcine donor heart to the left. (A) The 2 left atria have been connected, anastomosis between the right atria has begun. (B) Aortic end-to-side anastomosis is finished; the 2 main pulmonary arteries are to be joined end-to-side by interposition of a vascular graft (modified from Reichart B, Jamieson S, Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation, 1990, Figures 69 and 72).
