Tissue engineering of heart valves
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tissue-engineering-of-heart-valves-301-6796602
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Tissue engineering of heart valves
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Tissue engineered heart valves (TEHV) offer a new and advancing proposed treatment of creating a living heart valve for people who are in need of either a full or partial heart valve replacement. Currently, there are over a quarter of a million prosthetic heart valves implanted annually, and the number of patients requiring replacement surgeries is only suspected to rise and even triple over the next fifty years. While current treatments offered such as mechanical valves or biological valves are
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2023-09-04T18:53:24Z
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