They might appear or get worse when your body is dealing with extra ... might be obtained from a cow, pig, or human cadaver. When the mitral valve does not function as it should, your blood ...

But the human body does not take kindly to foreign parts … especially those from a swine. It will reject the pig heart valve because the valve has incompatible pig cells on its lining.

VVeno Medical (Nasdaq:NVNO) announced three-year outcomes for its heart valve that it aims to submit to the FDA this year.

"I think it's my lifelong mission. I have literally been working in this field since 1985, and for the past 30 of these years ...

From there, blood is pumped out through the aortic valve into the aortic arch and onward to the rest of the body. The left ventricle is the thickest of the heart’s chambers and is responsible ...

In this study, we proposed a new strategy to replace the natural vitreous by a novel capsular artificial vitreous body with a pressure-control valve. It was designed to avoid those disadvantages ...