This technology is an artificial heart valve prosthesis that is designed to expand and grow with the patient, eliminating the need for multiple valve replacement surgeries as the patient ages.
Current methods for replacing a defective heart valve include using an artificial, metal-based mechanical valve or a tissue-based bioprosthetic valve. These existing prosthetics cannot grow or respond biologically to changes in their environments. For pediatric patients, this means having to undergo multiple heart surgeries over the course of their lives to get their replacement valves resized or replaced as they continue to grow.
This technology is a prosthetic heart valve that can grow with the patient over time through mechanical expansion. This design can be used to replace mitral, tricuspid, aortic, and/or pulmonary valves. This technology provides a growing or expandable heart valve prosthesis that is ideal for pediatric patients, and can help to reduce the mortality, morbidity and costs associated with treatment of heart valve diseases.
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