Decline in mechanical valve use: Despite superior outcomes in younger populations, mechanical valve use decreased from 20% to 10% over the study's 12-year period. Survival advantage: Mechanical ...

Patients with a size 21 mm mechanical valve had better survival compared to both size 19 and 21 mm biological valves. The study confirmed that severe PPM is a significant risk factor for poor long ...

Patients with a size 21 mm mechanical valve had better survival compared to both size 19 and 21 mm biological valves. The study confirmed that severe PPM is a significant risk factor for poor long ...

They will remove the defective valve and replace it with either a tissue valve or a mechanical valve, as was previously mentioned. During most open-heart surgeries, including valve surgery, it is ...

A study led by the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, has found that mechanical heart valves provide better long-term survival than biological heart valves in patients aged 50-70 years.

While narrowing of either the aortic or mitral valve typically requires valve replacement (with a manufactured “mechanical” valve, or with a tissue valve which typically comes from a cow or pig), ...

She had already endured multiple heart surgeries. Currently, children who need heart valve replacements receive either ...

Currently, children who need heart valve replacements receive either preserved non-living tissue or mechanical valves, which don’t grow with the child and often fail within months.