This valve is attached to the heart in two separate locations—one ... For the first implant we had to determine the size, shape and type of valvular mechanism and the materials to be used.
This can impact the valves making them too loose or too narrow, significantly restricting the heart from pumping the blood effectively. Stenosis and regurgitation are two main types of heart valve ...
As your heart beats, it pumps blood from the left ventricle through the aortic valve and into the aorta, your body’s largest artery. The aortic valve is made up of three triangular flaps of ...
Mitral valve disease affects the heart's left chambers, leading to complications like atrial fibrillation and heart failure.
2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...
A large new population study of men over 45 indicates insulin resistance may be an important risk factor for the development of the world's most common heart valve disease -- aortic stenosis (AS).
Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully ... possible to induce specific tissue/organ cell types and seed them on decellularized animal (such ...