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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.
F. Oveissi +4 more
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Guided Tissue Regeneration in Heart Valve Replacement: From Preclinical Research to First-in-Human Trials [PDF]
, 2015 Heart valve tissue-guided regeneration aims to offer a functional and viable alternative to current prosthetic replacements. Not requiring previous cell seeding and conditioning in bioreactors, such exceptional tissue engineering approach is a very ...
Gerosa, Gino, Iop, Laura
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020 Background Valve replacement surgery is the definitive management strategy for patients with severe valvular disease. However, valvular conduits currently in clinical use are associated with significant limitations.
Steve W. F. R. Waqanivavalagi +4 more
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JTCVS Open, 2023 Background: Polymeric heart valves (PHVs) may address the limitations of mechanical and tissue valves in the treatment of valvular heart disease. In this study, a bioinspired valve was designed, assessed in silico, and validated by an in vitro model to ...
Aeryne Lee, PhD +10 more
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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1965 SUMMARY This paper summarizes the experience in the treatment of a series of 1,370 cases of open-heart surgery. Of these, 964 valvular lesions and the associated pathologic lesion are analyzed. Details of correction and immediate and late results in the treatment of the following groups of lesions were studied: 74 cases of congenital aortic stenosis ...
E J, ZERBINI +2 more
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Трансплантология (Москва), 2023 Aim. The aim of this review was to analyze publications describing studies focusing on the pathophysiological mechanisms of calcification of bioprosthetic heart valves, and to substantiate new and promising methods of calcification prevention for the ...
A. E. Kostyunin +3 more
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View, 2021 Heart diseases caused by structure and function degradation is troubling millions of people all over the world. With the extension of human lifespan, the demand for heart valve replacement is rapidly increasing.
Ziyu Shao +10 more
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Carcinoid Heart Disease: Early Outcomes after Surgical Valve Replacement in Nine Patients [PDF]
, 2018 Aim: To describe the early outcomes of carcinoid patients undergoing surgical heart valve replacement. Methods: In a retrospective study, records of patients with symptomatic carcinoid heart disease referred for valve surgery between 2012 and 2016 ...
Clark, Stephen, Mujtaba, Syed Saleem
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Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 1988 A substituição valvar por valva aórtica homóloga montada em suporte flexível e preservada pelo glutaraldeído é procedimento original e informações preliminares já foram relatadas anteriormente.
Ênio Buffolo +6 more
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Communications Biology, 2023 Pliable microfibrous, bioresorbable elastomeric heart valve prostheses are investigated in search of sustainable heart valve replacement. These cell-free implants recruit cells and trigger tissue formation on the valves in situ. Our aim is to investigate
Annemijn Vis +14 more
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