Size-Adjustable Prosthetic Heart Valve Accommodates Heart Growth in Sheep (2 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Size-Adjustable Prosthetic Heart Valve Accommodates Heart Growth in Sheep (2 of 8)

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The valve replacement expanding to accommodate different lengths in implanted sheep. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 19, 2020, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.C. Hofferberth at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, MA; and colleagues was titled, "A geometrically adaptable heart valve replacement."

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[Credit: S.C. Hofferberth et al., Science Translational Medicine (2020)]

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