Tissue engineering of heart valves is an innovative field aimed at creating functional heart valve replacements that can grow and adapt with patients, particularly children. Traditional heart ...

These latest data reinforce years of smaller studies, but whether they should change practice is a matter of debate.

Open heart surgery for aortic or mitral valve repair or replacement ... requires valve replacement (with a manufactured “mechanical” valve, or with a tissue valve which typically comes from a cow or ...

Over time, the scaffolds dissolve, leaving behind a living valve composed entirely of the patient’s own tissue. When heart valves become diseased, they may stiffen, or become leaky, increasing ...

Over time, the scaffolds dissolve, leaving behind a living valve composed entirely of the patient’s own tissue. When heart valves become diseased, they may stiffen, or become leaky, increasing ...

Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Children's Hospital OU Health used an adolescent patient's own tissue to reconstruct a leaky heart valve, CBS affiliate KWTV reported Jan. 15. The 16-year-old male ...

Three-dimensional bioprinted tissues composed of cells and other body-compatible materials are a powerful emerging tool to repair damaged heart tissue. But most bioprinted tissues cannot generate ...

A Tulsa teenager is making history after his successful surgery to reconstruct his heart valve with his own tissue.