If you have never heard of heart valve disease, you're not alone.

Conclusions: This study documents that prosthetic heart valve sizing and labeling inconsistencies exist.

The aortic heart valve undergoes geometric and mechanical changes over time.

The method holds promise for a safe, biocompatible, and economical heart valve prosthesis.

I could hear the strange click of her artificial heart valve.

The dCELL has applications in wound care, heart valve replacement and knee repair.

The treatment was pulled off the market due to evidence of heart valve damage.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed data from 906 patients who underwent heart valve replacement surgery.

The development of biomimetic scaffolds is a major challenge in heart valve tissue engineering.

A tissue engineered heart valve could, in principle, accommodate these requirements, especially somatic growth.

Further research into the effect and organization of CR post heart valve surgery is needed.

Conclusion: TVR carries a higher short- and long-term mortality when compared to left- heart valve surgery.

Background: We studied the long-term results of heart valve replacement with the Toronto SPV bioprosthesis.

Postel survived a heart valve replacement in 1991, but recently that valve had begun leaking.

We describe a biosimulator that recapitulates normal heart valve physiology with associated real-time hemodynamic performance.

Conclusions: Despite high national programme coverage, only half the patients post heart valve surgery received CR.