WORLDWIDE FIRST FINALIZED STUDY OF PRECLINICAL LIFE-SUPPORTING ORTHOTOPIC PIG-TO-BABOON CARDIAC XENOTRANSPLANTATION (XT): CONSTANT REPRODUCIBLE 3-MONTHS-SURVIVAL UP TO HALF A YEAR MEETS THE ISHLT GUIDELINES FOR FIRST CLINICAL TRIALS

Paolo Brenner, Bruno Reichart, Matthias Längin, Tanja Mayr, Sonja Guethoff, Stefan Buchholz, Sebastian Michel, Isabelle Lutzmann, Fabian Werner, Lara Issl, Jiawei Ying, Ann Kathrin Fresch, Maren Mokelke, Julia Radan, Ines Buttgereit, Andreas Bauer, Nikolai Klymiuk, Walter Hermanns, Keith Reimann, David Ayares, Christian Hagl, Stig Steen, Eckhard Wolf, Jan-Michael Abicht Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, Clic of Grosshadern, University of Munch (LMU), Munich, Germany; Dept. of Anaesthesiology, Clic of Grosshadern, University of Munch (LMU), Munich, Germany; WalterBrendel-Centre, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany; Dept. of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany; MassBiologics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany; Revivicor, Inc., Blackburg, VA, United States; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.