Two fundamentally different surgical approaches to liver transplantation exist: (1) orthotopic (OLT), and (2) heterotopic (HLT). In OLT, the patient's diseased liver is completely removed and ...

In orthotopic cardiac transplant (OCT), the native heart is replaced with the denervated donor heart. In heterotopic heart transplant (HHT), a less common procedure, the recipient heart and its ...

This study reviews data from 179 consecutive adult patients scheduled for primary single organ orthotopic HTx at ... retrospectively collected from the transplant database, and included demography ...

Scientists trying to develop infant orthotopic cardiac xenotransplantation are at the stage of testing on a non-human primate model. (Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation) ...