Artificial Heart Valves: Difference between revisions
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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
===Heart Basics=== | ===Heart Basics=== | ||
===Reasons for Valve Replacement=== | |||
==Types of Artificial Heart Valves== | ==Types of Artificial Heart Valves== | ||
Revision as of 16:47, 8 February 2013
History
1952- First heart valve replacement using the caged-ball valve designed by a surgeon, Doctor Hufnagel. This valve did not replace the patient's diseased aortic valve but instead it was inserted in the descending aorta in an open-chest procedure.
1960- ball valves are introduced
1962- aortic homografts are introduced
1965- glutaraldehyde-preserved porcine 'bioprostheses'
1969- disc valves
1977- invention of bileaflet valves by St. John's Medical
