## Abstract Although bioprosthetic heart valves offer the benefits of a natural opening and closing, better hemodynamics, and avoidance of lifeβlong anticoagulant therapy, they nevertheless tend to fail in 10β15 years from tears and calcification. Several authors, including the present ones, have i
An approach to the optimization of preparation of bioprosthetic heart valves
β Scribed by Dimosthenis Mavrilas; Yannis Missirlis
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 940 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9290
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