Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement ... or with a tissue valve which typically comes from a cow or pig), mitral valve disease can typically be corrected by repairing ...

TV presenter and actor Christopher Biggins has revealed that he had a 'pig valve' inserted into his heart and without the controversial operation he would be dead. Speaking exclusively to the ...

This surgery is part of a growing effort to use genetically altered pig organs to help deal with a shortage of human organs ...

If you have heart valve replacement surgery, you will be prescribed a blood ... A bioprosthetic or "tissue" valve created from cow or pig tissue usually doesn't require a blood thinner long ...

Following surgery, the transplanted heart had performed ... More recently, attention has turned toward pigs. Today, pig heart valves are widely used in humans, and pig skin is grafted on human ...

Heart valve replacement is surgery that replaces one or more of the ... Bioprosthetic valves are animal-derived heart valve ...