Figure 9.

Heart rates (HRs) and body temperature of animal #2 in the 72 h following transplantation. HRs were calculated from the left ventricular (LV, blue) and aortic pressure probe (red), temperature was measured by the implant’s casing (yellow). The different HRs of donor and recipient hearts were clearly discriminable. Temperature rose immediately after operation due to external warming, then dropped again when moving the animal into its cage. Temperature equilibrium was only reached 30 h after surgery.