Choice of Prosthetic Heart Valves: 20-Year Results of the Edinburgh Heart Valve Trial

Prosthetic Aortic Heart Valves

In this review, the anatomy and structure of the aortic valve and its prostheses are comprehensively discussed. Cardiac anatomy and function, human heart valves and their prostheses are also extensively discussed. The current status of prosthetic heart valves along with the next generation of these devices is broadly deliberated. Ather promising options such astranscatheter technologies (percut...

Prosthetic heart valves.

The first prosthetic valve was implanted by Hufnagel in 1952 in a patient with aortic insufficiency. Since then, prosthetic valves have evolved into various mechanical and bioprosthetic shapes and sizes. Despite the excitement surrounding the current development of prosthetic heart valves, surgically implanted valves remain the mainstay of current practice, and this article discusses the hemody...

The Edinburgh heart valve study.

Durability has always been a crucial performance indicator for artificial heart valves. There is the intrinsic durability of the valve itself, as constructed by the manufacturer, but it is the durability of the implanted valve in the individual patient which is the real issue, particularly, but not solely, for the patient. Progress in the design and manufacture of artificial heart valves has ar...

stress echocardiography in prosthetic heart valves

Choice of prosthetic heart valve in today's practice.

In this update, current guidelines addressing prosthesis selection published by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) are discussed, along with additional data that affect choices in valve prostheses. The case of a 50-year-old man undergoing aortic valve replacement is used to address anticipated operative mortality,...