Others are made out of animal tissue, often from a pig. Aortic valve replacement gives you a new aortic heart valve. The new valve may be mechanical or made of animal tissue, often from a pig. Your ...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is valve replacement without open ... This valve is made of natural tissue obtained from the heart of a pig. The valve leaflets are secured to a flexible, ...

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve ... replacement organs because it is possible to induce specific tissue/organ cell types and seed them on decellularized animal (such as a ...

Any four valves can malfunction, although severe aortic stenosis is the most common indication for valve replacement ...