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What Animal Valves Are Used To Commonly Replace The Valves In A Human Heart ?

What animal valves are used to commonly replace the valves in a human heart when they are damaged?
What animal valves are used to commonly replace the valves in a human heart when they are damaged?
Sun, 20 Dec 2009
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The origonal heart transplant experiments were done with pig hearts main due to size, using vast amounts of anti rejection drugs. As far as I know they still use pig valves, but I wouldn't be too surprised if they have't developed a sylicone ( or other material type ) stent valve.
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What Animal Valves Are Used To Commonly Replace The Valves In A Human Heart ?

The origonal heart transplant experiments were done with pig hearts main due to size, using vast amounts of anti rejection drugs. As far as I know they still use pig valves, but I wouldn t be too surprised if they have t developed a sylicone ( or other material type ) stent valve.