There are three main options for valve replacement: mechanical valves, porcine valves and human allograft valves. Mechanical valves are extremely durable, but they cause damage to elements of the ...

A cadaveric valve comes from a human donor. Bovine valves are recovered from cows and porcine valves come from pigs. The valve may be an actual valve recovered from a donor or is manufactured from ...

The current generation CoreValve is a trileaflet valve made from porcine pericardium in a self-expanding nitinol frame. A multidisciplinary team including both interventional cardiologists and ...

The pig-heart-valve-skeleton-with-human-heart-valve-cells was then successfully transplanted into an immune-compromised rat. It lasted for two months, a duration that Wang says is equivalent to ...