Table 1.

Mean values and standard deviations from the recipient’s systemic and the graft’s left ventricular pressure, heart rate, and body temperature from animals #1–3. Pressure measurements were derived from the femoral arteria, the aorta, and the graft’s left ventricle, heart rates from analysis of the respective pressure probes and the pericardial ECG signal, and temperature from sensors in the femoral arterial line and the implant’s casing, respectively.

	Animal #1	Animal #2	Animal #3	All animals
Systemic and LVgraft pressures
Pmean femoral artery [mmHg]	73±7	101±13	96±12	91±16
Pmean aorta [mmHg]	61±7	89±14	97±10	83±18
Psys LVgraft [mmHg]	60±17	79±20	85±12	75±20
LVEDPgraft [mmHg]	−10±3	−9±1	5±3	−5±7.4
Pmean LVgraft [mmHg]	13±3	27±7	36±6	26±11
Heart rates recipient
HR femoral artery [bpm]	78±23	114±18	87±28	93±28
Accuracy [%]	58.3	80.1	63.6	67.6
HR aorta [bpm]	72±21	116±19	80±27	89±28
Accuracy [%]	82.1	91	83.9	85.8
Heart rates graft
HR epicardial ECG [bpm]	117±14	125±27	110±12	118±20
Accuracy [%]	81.1	87.5	79.2	82.6
HR LVgraft [bpm]	114±10	121±18	112±17	115±16
Accuracy [%]	95.6	96.2	91.1	94.3
Body temperatures
Temperature, arterial catheter [°C]	38.8±0.3	38.2±0.4	36.5±0.8	37.2±0.9
Temperature, telemetry casing [°C]	33.1±0.3	37.1±0.9	33.0±1.8	34.5±2.3

P_sys – systolic pressure; LVEDP – left ventricular end-diastolic pressure; HR – heart rate.