The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 81, 546-552, Copyright © 1981 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Intrafamilial lung xenografts from fox to dog
FJ Veith, KU Richards, JW Hagstrom and CM Montefusco
The technical feasibility and rejection characteristics of intrafamilial
fox-to-dog xenografts were studied. The results indicate that (1) both
lungs of a smaller donor can be successfully transplanted into a single
hemithorax of a larger recipient, (2) fox-to-dog lung xenografts are
capable of providing total pulmonary function at tolerable right
ventricular pressures, and (3) the rejection process of unmodified
intrafamilial lung xenografts, was similar to and not more vigorous or more
rapid than that of canine lung allografts in untreated recipients.