Prosthetic Valves

• Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease ACC/AHA.
• Image gallery Evansville Heart Center.
• Prosthetic Heart Valves eMedicine.
• Video of Starr Edwards Valve Yale atlas of Echocardiography.
• Video of Mitral Bileaflet Prosthesis Malfunction Guido Giordano.
• Prosthetic Valve Information Page Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
• FAQ's St. Jude Medical.
• Guidelines: Anticoagulation for Mechanical Valves American College of Chest Physicians.
• Lessons of the Björk-Shiley Heart Valve Failure
• Cardiovascular system- prosthetic cardiac valves UK SPORT DIVING MEDICAL COMMITTEE.
• General- anticoagulation UK SPORT DIVING MEDICAL COMMITTEE.
• Durability and wear testing of prosthetic heart valves
• Recalls and Alerts 2002 eMedicine.
• Haemolysis Due to Mechanical and Physical Agents
• Heart Valves in Pregnancy DR.Hassan Chams-Pasha.
• Identification of Heart Valve Prostheses in Use Prior to 1975
• Identifying the Location of a Prosthetic Heart Valve from Chest X-rays
• Clinical Findings in Acute Prosthetic Heart Valve Dysfunction
• Photographs of Five types of prosthetic heart valves
• Prosthetic Heart Valves from Illinois Institute of Technology.
• Prosthetic Valves Links
• Makers of Bioprosthetic and Mechanical Heart Valves and Other Links
• Physics behind Artificial Heart Valves and Other Links Mr. Deardorff's Physics 24 lecture.
• Overview of Prosthetic Heart Valves with Photographs
• Abstracts Amedeo.
• Prosthetic Heart Valve Slide John Ghidoni M.D.
• The Heart Valve Lab University of Western Ontario.
• Illustrated Lesson on Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery RRI Heart Valve Lab.
• Illustrated Lesson on Mitral Valve Replacement Surgery RRI Heart Valve Lab.
• Illustrated Lesson on Mitral Valve Repair Surgery RRI Heart Valve Lab.
• Mechanical, Pericardial and Bioprosthetic Links Biomaterials Links at Texas A&M.
• Transesophageal echo for thrombosis of mechanical mitral valves Circulation article.
• Valve Tutorial with Photographs The Cleveland Clinic.
• Pathology photo: ball-in-cage prosthesis.
• Biomedical engineering papers in pdf format. See table of contents- Cardiac Valves.
• Natural History.

FDA Regulatory Links

• Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Do Search on Prosthetic Valves.
• Device Program Areas FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
• Federal Register Search for: "medical devices" or "replacement heart valves" or "premarket approval"

Bioprosthetic mitral valve: all three struts are seen in this patient.

Prosthetic Bileaflet Mitral Valve.

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The contents and links on this page were last verified on November 9, 2002.