The groundbreaking, seven-hour procedure was carried out at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center by an extensive medical team, ...

Dr. Mohammadi says while mechanical heart valve replacements have long been in use, the biggest challenge has been to perfect the technology for the smallest hearts—tiny infants. “What is ...

Dr. Mohammadi also says while mechanical heart valve replacements have long been in use, the long-standing challenge has been to perfect the technology for the smallest hearts - tiny infants.

Dr. Mohammadi also says while mechanical heart valve replacements have long been in use, the long-standing challenge has been to perfect the technology for the smallest hearts -- tiny infants.

Dr. Mohammadi also says while mechanical heart valve replacements have long been in use, the long-standing challenge has been to perfect the technology for the smallest hearts—tiny infants.

MAN: It had to be a perfect team because Lowell didn't ... Surgical teams across the U.S. were designing artificial heart valves to replace diseased valves in humans, but with limited success.

While bioprosthetic heart valves have some advantages over mechanical ones ... in-vivo tests and in clinical experiments. "So far, the perfect prosthetic valve has not been constructed.

A team of researchers at UBCO's Heart Valve Performance Lab ... regularly to improve a patient's blood flow, artificial valves have never been perfect, says Mohammadi. With existing versions ...

Surgeons in Italy have made a rare discovery while operating on a 60-year-old woman - an artificial ... prosthetic valve was implanted in 1969 at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town by none other ...

Too small and the artificial valve can become dislodged and leaky, too large and it can rupture the heart, potentially ... expanded and contracted until the perfect fit is found, with a thin ...