OPCAB surgery is safe and effective in patients with critical LMS disease.

Hyperacute pulmonary xenograft rejection can be prevented by pretransplantation swine lung perfusion. Swine pulmonary xenografts can provide complete respiratory support in primates when rejection is prevented.

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Lungs from swine expressing human decay accelerating factor and human CD59 functioned better than nontransgenic swine lungs when perfused with human plasma. These results suggest that complement activation is involved in producing acute pulmonary xenograft dysfunction and demonstrate that lungs from swine expressing human decay accelerating factor and human CD59 are protected against pulmonary injury when perfused with human plasma.

The rate of occurrence of correctable undetected visual acuity deficit (CUVAD)

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