"valve" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Heart valves are vital for transplantation into children born with valve defects and adults with diseased or worn valves.
- The surgeon then removes the patient's diseased aortic valve and a mechanical or tissue valve is put in its place.
- To restore normal blood flow, patients with severe aortic valve stenosis need open-heart surgery to replace the diseased valve.
- A diseased aortic valve is most commonly replaced using a surgical procedure with either a mechanical or a tissue valve.
- He then removed the diseased valve and inserted sutures to hold the prosthetic ball valve.
- A homograft may be used to replace a diseased aortic or pulmonic valve.
- For decades after, mitral valve replacement was the only surgical option for patients with a severely diseased mitral valve.
- A number of reports stressed, however, that replacement of the diseased aortic valve often led to resolution of the coagulopathy.
- In 1962 Ross introduced the use of homografts to replace diseased aortic valves.
- Mechanical heart valves are widely used to replace diseased valves during open heart surgery.
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