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Heart Valve Substitutes

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Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering ((BIOMEDICAL))

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On 19/5/2005 a male patient, aged 44, underwent surgery for explanting his mitral bioprosthetic heart valve, which was malfunctioning, having become stenotic. The valve had remained in the patient’s heart for 63 months.

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  1. Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, De Croylaan 2, 3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Professor Dr. Jozef A. Helsen

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, 265 00, Patras, Greece

    Professor Dr. Yannis Missirlis

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Helsen, J.A., Missirlis, Y. (2010). Heart Valve Substitutes. In: Biomaterials. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12532-4_12

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