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Maze procedures coat this organ in a labyrinth of scar tissue. LVADs (“ell-vads”) are bridges to transplantation to this organ. (20[3])St. Thomas’ (20[1])solution is used to induce hyperkalemia before deep hypothermic surgery on this organ. It’s not the kidney, but in 2022, (20[1])eGenesis transplanted this organ from a gene-edited pig (20[1])into (20[1])a (20[1])human. (20[6])CABG (20[2])(“cabbage”) surgery (20[2])is done on this organ. During surgeries to (20[1])fix a bundle (20[1])branch block (20[2])or (*) Tetralogy (10[1])of Fallot (10[3])in (10[1])this organ, patients may be placed on a bypass machine. (10[2])Christiaan (10[1])Barnard performed (10[1])the first human transplant of this organ. (10[1])A balloon inflates the arteries (10[1])that wrap around this organ in a coronary angioplasty. For 10 points, defects in which organ’s sinoatrial valve are corrected by a pacemaker? ■END■ (10[3])

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