Medtronic Releases New ADVANTAGE Supra Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve to Surgeons in Europe, Canada. November 25, 2003 10:02 AM Eastern Standard Time. MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 2003-- ...

The Lillehei-Kaster valve, clinically introduced in 1969, is a free-floating tilting disk heart valve. It is made with an inner titanium orifice ring with two small inner supports, and two lateral ...

August 3, 2010 (San Diego, California) — Mechanical heart-valve pioneer Donald Shiley, who with Swedish surgeon Viking Bjork developed a prosthesis widely used for aortic- and mitral-valve ...

This artificial mitral caged-ball heart valve was developed by engineer M. Lowell Edwards and Dr. Edward Starr (born 1926). After attempts at trying to design a bileaflet artificial heart valve ...