Artificial Heart Valve Overview

Encyclopedia: Artificial Heart Valve

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An artificial heart valve is a device which is implanted in the heart of patients who suffer from valvular diseases in their heart. When one or two of the four heart valves of the heart have a malfunction, the choice is normally to replace the natural valve with an artificial valve. This requires open-heart surgery. Valves are integral to the normal physiological functioning of the human heart. Natural heart valves...

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Can deer hear an artificial heart valve?
I go deer hunting with my dad and he has an artificial heart valve. It...

I am a deer hunter as well, the deer will more than likely sense your worrying over the thoughts you are having with your dads valve, just relax out there!!...

Asked by alabamian33 - 7 months ago

Where can I find a picture of an artificial heart valve?
My grandmother had an artificial heart valve installed (that doesn't sound like the right word)...

Here are lots of pictures: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enUS211US211&q=artificial heart valve It's probably plastic.

Asked by Red - 17 months ago


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