They also showed that mitral-valve replacement was possible with a ... based in Anaheim, California, to manufacture artificial heart valves for human use—the first such company in the world.

Heart valve replacement is surgery that replaces one ... lifelong to prevent blood clots from forming on the artificial valve ...

Furthermore, new surgical methods (conventional cardiac surgery in high-risk patients, e.g., coronary and valve operations ... obtain a transplant. In 2008, in Freiburg alone, 24 heart and ...

During this surgery, the damaged valve is removed and replaced with an artificial valve. The valve replacement is typically an open-heart surgery. A minimally invasive surgery or a catheter procedure ...

Yet despite the heart being essentially a blood pump, engineering even a short-term artificial replacement has been a struggle for many decades. A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH ...

To explore the uses of this material, [Riley] chose to make an artificial heart valve. This required a 3D-printed framework with three prongs, painted with conductive paint. He tried a few ...

The invention will allow surgeons to give patients synthetic heart valves that free them to live lives indistinguishable from ...

With restored circulation, the TAH allowed Harbison to regain enough strength within 10 days to also undergo a heart ...

It has no valves, and a motor drives a single magnetically levitated rotor ... The BiVACOR device is the second total artificial heart implanted via clinical trial at Duke. In 2021, the heart ...

Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of ...

For years, it was shrouded in secrecy. It was heart surgery’s Manhattan Project, whispered to be set to change the world. And ...

These 30 patients benefited from Aeson® support for an average of 156 days before transplant (the maximum duration recorded being 308 days). As a reminder, the Aeson® artificial heart is CE ...