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Materials and manufacturing perspectives in engineering heart valves: a review
Materials Today Bio, 2020 Valvular heart diseases (VHD) are a major health burden, affecting millions of people worldwide. The treatments for such diseases rely on medicine, valve repair, and artificial heart valves including mechanical and bioprosthetic valves.
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Cardiology Plus, 2021 The four heart valves are arranged in different planes from each other. The aortic valve is most centrally located being related to all four cardiac chambers.
Siew Yen Ho
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Which Biological Properties of Heart Valves Are Relevant to Tissue Engineering?
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2020 Over the last 20 years, the designs of tissue engineered heart valves have evolved considerably. An initial focus on replicating the mechanical and structural features of semilunar valves has expanded to endeavors to mimic the biological behavior of ...
Adrian H. Chester, K. Jane Grande-Allen
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Recent advancements in polymeric heart valves: From basic research to clinical trials [PDF]
Materials Today BioValvular heart diseases (VHDs) have become one of the most prevalent heart diseases worldwide, and prosthetic valve replacement is one of the effective treatments. With the fast development of minimal invasive technology, transcatheter valves replacement
Yuanchi Wang +5 more
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Bacterial Diversity in Native Heart Valves in Infective Endocarditis [PDF]
BiomedicinesBackground: Infective endocarditis (IE) is an infectious disease caused by the hematogenous dissemination of bacteria into heart valves. Improving the identification of pathogens that cause IE is important to increase the effectiveness of its therapy and
Anna Sinitskaya +8 more
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Immune Shielding of Human Heart Valves [PDF]
JACC: Basic to Translational ScienceSummary: Children born with defective heart valves require multiple donor valve replacements throughout life, because these cannot grow and can cause early failure through immune degeneration.
Marijn C. Peters, PhD +9 more
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Advances in xenogeneic donor decellularized organs: A review on studies with sheep and porcine‐derived heart valves [PDF]
Bioengineering & Translational MedicineHeart valve replacement surgeries are performed on patients suffering from abnormal heart valve function. In these operations, the problematic tissue is replaced with mechanical valves or with bioprosthetics that are being developed.
Muslum Suleyman Inal +5 more
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Polymeric prosthetic heart valves: A review of current technologies and future directions
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 Valvular heart disease is an important source of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Current prosthetic valve replacement options, such as bioprosthetic and mechanical heart valves are limited by structural valve degeneration requiring reoperation or
Sameer K. Singh +6 more
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 The development of a novel artificial heart valve with outstanding durability and safety has remained a challenge since the first mechanical heart valve entered the market 65 years ago.
M. Rezvova +3 more
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Emergency TAVI in a critically ill patient: A case report
Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Transcatheter aortic valve implantation is a safe procedure even in inoperable patients with multi‐organ failure and cardiogenic shock. In such cases, the heart team should be prepared to proceed to emergent implantation for timely and successful ...
Konstantinos Papadopoulos +5 more
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