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 ...

A redo sternotomy with mitral valve replacement was planned. Intra-procedurally, it was noted that the previous partial annuloplasty ring was impinging on the proximal portion of the posterior leaflet ...

We hypothesized that the gated high-speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) could profile the contractile properties of mouse myocardial tissue and facilitate investigations of microscale mechanical ...

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She was placed on a heart-lung machine for 45 minutes. The procedure worked, and Gibbon is credited with performing the first successful cardiac operation using a mechanical heart-lung machine.

where two metal heart valves were placed in her heart. Kozlowski remembers the doctor telling her she could go home. “And I said, By the way, how long are they going to last? Is there a warranty ...