Heart valve surgery is a procedure to treat heart valve disease, which happens when at least one of the four heart valves is not working properly. However, many aspects of heart valve surgery may ...
Your heart's four valves keep blood moving in the right direction, but a poorly working valve causes abnormal blood flow in your heart. With valvular heart disease, the heart works too hard ...
This action suggests a fluid dynamic control mechanism which positions the cusps away from the wall of the aorta, so that the slightest reversed flow will close the valve.
2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...
Disease of the cardiac valves and other cardiac structures frequently results in abnormal, turbulent blood flow within the heart, causing murmurs. Careful auscultation of heart murmurs is an ...
Dr. Albert Starr was a world-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon who performed the first triple valve surgery. Dr. Albert Starr, a world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon who co-invented and implanted ...