Size-Adjustable Prosthetic Heart Valve Accommodates Heart Growth in Sheep (3 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Size-Adjustable Prosthetic Heart Valve Accommodates Heart Growth in Sheep (3 of 8)

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Artistic rendering of human venous valve geometry at rest and during expansion under volume load. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 19, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, 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: Sophie C. Hofferberth, Lara Tomholt]

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