Innovation and science: The future of valve design

Designing semilunar valves in children has been a constantly evolving and at the same time challenging field for both the clinicians and the engineers involved. Recent approaches embraced include analytic methods based on engineering principles promising a more scientific and precision-based approach. This requires a solid understanding of the precise mechanisms of normal valve operation, but superimposed on this is the constantly changing environment of the valve due to the growing child, a change of hemodynamics, or a disease process that evolves over time.
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Tags: Congenital: Atrioventricular Valve Repair: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research