The Heart and Heart Valves
Cardiac Muscle; The Heart as a Pump and Function of the Heart Valves
... The Heart as a Pump and Function of the Heart Valves PHYSIOLOGY OF CARDIAC MUSCLE The heart is composed of three major types of cardiac muscle: atrial muscle, ventricular muscle, and ...
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Pregnancy With Prosthetic Heart Valves
... mechanical heart valves (MHV) and bio prosthetic heart valves ...Mechanical heart valves are highly durable, lasting 20–30 years whereas up to 30% of BPV will fail in 10– 15 ...
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Heart Valves Should Not Be Routinely Cultured
... period, heart surgeons were asked to submit to the micro- biology laboratory all valve samples, with or without vegetations, from patients requiring valve replacement, regardless of the preoperative ...all ...
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Adherence of bacteria to heart valves in vitro
... to heart valves in ...to heart valves in vitro, suggesting that the ability to adhere to valvular endothelium may be an important or essential charcteristic of bacteria that cause endocarditis ...
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Heart Valves Prolapse in Population Referred to Heart Clinic in Ilam, West of Iran
... of heart valves prolapse in this study was similar to the studies in other countries and is more common in ...Prevalence, Heart valve prolapse, MVP, TVP, AVP Milad Azami 1 , Mohammad Hossein Yekta ...
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Percutaneous heart valves; past, present and future
... Percutaneous heart valves; past, present and future MM Rozeik, DJ Wheatley and T Gourlay Abstract Percutaneous heart valves provide a promising future for patients refused surgery on the ...
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Postpartum anticoagulation in women with mechanical heart valves
... mechanical heart valve Plain language summary Women with mechanical heart valves are at increased risk for various complications during pregnancy and in the postpartum ...
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Calcification Of Bovine Pericardial Aortic Heart Valves
... BHVs than that which occurs in human heart valves (Bertazzo et al. 2013). Moreover, this could also be a reason why the current methods used in calcification reduction for BHV manufacturing may not be the ...
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Hydrodynamic characteristics of prosthetic heart valves Cardiamed
... prosthetic heart valves “Cardiamed” Hydrodynamic characteristics of blood flow passing through a prosthetic heart valve have profound effect on the activation of thrombus formation processes on it as ...
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Finite Element Analysis to Study Percutaneous Heart Valves
... bioprosthetic heart valves (valve-in-valve procedure) in patients considered at very high- risk or ineligible for surgery (Webb et ...bioprosthetic valves ideal candidates for TAVI (Walther et ...
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Bioprosthetic Heart Valves: Upgrading a 50-Year Old Technology
... Prosthetic heart valves have been commonly used to address the increasing prevalence of valvular heart ...prosthetic heart valve substitute should closely mimic the characteristics of a normal ...
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Cytotoxic mAb from rheumatic carditis recognizes heart valves and laminin
... streptococcal carbohydrate GlcNAc and host antigens may be important in rheumatic valvulitis and in the generation of anti-myosin/anti-GlcNAc antibodies pres- ent in patients with disease. Since it has not been deter- ...
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Quest for cardiovascular interventions: precise modeling and 3D printing of heart valves
... of heart valve through decellu- larised heart valves obtained from xenogenic or allogenic sources has been one of the best approaches ...of heart-valve through different microfabrication ...
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Neomycin-Enhanced Carbodiimide Cross-linking for Glycosaminoglycan Stability in Bioprosthetic Heart Valves
... Diseased heart valves can often be diagnosed simply by listening to the ...the heart, which can be heard using a ...mitral valves on the left side of the ...the heart is usually a ...
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An anisotropic constitutive model for immersogeometric fluid–structure interaction analysis of bioprosthetic heart valves
... d Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, O. Nielsens veg 10, 7052 Trondheim, Norway Abstract This paper considers an anisotropic hyperelastic soft tissue model, originally ...
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Comparison between two different regimens of anticoagulants for pregnant women with prosthetic heart valves
... Methods: An observational was carried out at Assiut Women's Health Hospital, Egypt between February and December 2016. All pregnant women with prosthetic heart valves attending the emergency department ...
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Percutaneous heart valves; past, present and future
... Valves designed especially for a TA-AVR approach have been developed and are undergoing clinical ...porcine heart valve sutured to a nitinol stent with a Dacron skirt which has been found to reduce ...
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Optimal oral anticoagulation for patients with mechanical heart valves
... The incidence rates of adverse events for specific levels of intensity of anticoagulation were calculated äs the ratio of the number of events that took place when thc prothrombin time w[r] ...
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Development of heart valves requires Gata4 expression in endothelial derived cells
... Conclusion This study demonstrates an essential role for expression of Gata4 in the endothelium and its derivatives. During the initial steps of AV valve formation, Gata4 is necessary for the expression of Erbb3, which ...
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Maternal and Fetal Outcomes of Anticoagulation in Pregnant Women With Mechanical Heart Valves
... pulmonic valves, in which right-sided valve dysfunction was not specifically reported on, were also excluded out of concern that these valves are at a higher risk for thrombosis and dysfunction (11–15) that ...
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