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Kidneys, heart, lungs, skin: 'High hopes' for pig organs saving lives
In the first few instances, this medical feat has already been achieved - at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals ...
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Blood Thinners After Heart Valve Surgery
A bioprosthetic or "tissue" valve created from cow or pig tissue usually doesn't require a blood thinner ... Association Between Antithrombotic Medication Use After Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve ...
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Aortic dilatation patterns and rates in adults with bicuspid aortic valves: a comparative study with Marfan syndrome and degenerative aortopathy
2 Centre National de Référence pour le syndrome de Marfan et apparentés, Hôpital Bichat, AP-HP, Paris, France Background Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is related to aortic dilatation, but patterns/rates ...
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Feasibility and Performance of Noninvasive Ultrasound Therapy in Patients With Severe Symptomatic Aortic Valve Stenosis:
As cavitation bubbles collapse, they produce shock waves inducing mechanical softening of the targeted calcified valve leaflet. Therapeutic dose was estimated as the mean acoustic focal energy (J/mm2) ...
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Heart Valve Replacements
A cadaveric valve comes from a human donor. Bovine valves are recovered from cows and porcine valves come from pigs. The valve may be an actual valve recovered from a donor or is manufactured from ...
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Mechanical and surgical bioprosthetic valve thrombosis
The risk of thrombosis of mechanical valves is higher in the mitral position compared with aortic position and in older generation valves (ball and cage valves). There is a wide spectrum of ...
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Prosthetic Heart Valves, Part I: Identification and Potential Complications
The HII® is made of a porcine aortic valve fixed in glutaraldehyde and mounted on a low-profile stent comprised of an acetyl homopolymer (Delrin®). This bioprosthesis has a comparatively lower ...
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Mechanical valves offer superior long-term survival for aortic valve replacement patients aged
Citation: Mechanical valves offer superior long-term survival for aortic valve replacement patients aged 60, study finds (2025, January 27) retrieved 15 February 2025 from https://medicalxpress ...
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60 or Younger? A 'Wake Up Call' for Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement
Opens in a new tab or window LOS ANGELES -- Survival outcomes favored mechanical valves for isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for people until age 60, after which a tissue valve ...
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Mechanical aortic valves showed improved long-term survival in patients aged 60 and younger
A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs) provide significant long-term survival ...
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New study finds mechanical valves offer superior long-term survival for aortic valve replacement patients aged 60 and younger
LOS ANGELES—January 25, 2025—A late-breaking study presented today at the 2025 Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Annual Meeting reveals that mechanical aortic valve replacements (AVRs ...