More than 330,000 children worldwide are born with aheartvalve defect, and millions of others develop rheumatic heart disease requiring early valve replacement. Current prosthetic heart valves are fixed in diameter, so typically need to be replaced every few years; children receiving their first rep...
Which type of replacement valve should I get?The article provides an answer to a question of which type of replacement valve is the preferred option for a 77-year-old heart patient.EBSCO_AspHarvard Heart Letter
Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: From Pre-Procedural Planning to Procedural Scenarios and Possible Complications Over the last decades, bioprosthetic heart valves (BHV) have been increasingly implanted instead of mechanical valves in patients undergoing surgical aorti... FMD Muro,C ...
A replacement heart valve has an expandable frame configured to engage a native valve annulus and a valve body mounted to the expandable frame. The valve body can have a plurality of valve leaflets configured to open to allow flow in a f... A Quadri,BJ Ratz,R Michiels - WO 被引量: ...
Choosing a substitute cardiac valve; type, size, surgeon - Roberts - 1976 () Citation Context ...ll occluder into the descending thoracic aorta. The first implant of a mitral valve replacement in its anatomic position took place in 1960, when the Starr-Edwards prosthesis was put the clinical...
A device for making a replacement heart valve having a plurality of cusps. The combination includes a mold means for forming a tissue, suitably an animal tissue and particularly a homologous tissue, into cusp form. A clamping means causes the mold means to form the tissue into a cusp shape,...
Due to poor femoral access, severe carotid artery stenosis, and otherwise good surgical candidacy, the patient was recommended to undergo surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) with modified MAZE procedure. Fig. 1 Pre-operative Computed Tomography of Quadricuspid Aortic Valve – Case A. (Left) ...
Combined Techniques for Double Valve Replacement in the Infant A 6-month-old female infant was seen with heart failure secondary to severe aortic and mitral regurgitation. As a neonate the infant had undergone an aorti... TE Kersten,FB Bessinger,FM Stone,... - 《Annals of Thoracic Surgery》...
For each female patient, a propensity score-matched male patient was selected (1:1) using the one-to-one nearest neighbour method (with a calliper of 0.0001 of the SD of the propensity score on the logit scale) and no replacement. We assessed the distributions of demographic data and ...
Some of the common examples include transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR), transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), endoscopic vein harvesting, etc. Consequently, they are gaining traction across the globe. For example, in December 2022, Abbott, one of the leading global healthcare ...