Breakthrough design at UBCO vastly improves mechanical heart valve

(University of British Columbia Okanagan campus) New research coming out of UBC's Okanagan campus may take the current 'gold standard' for heart valves to a new level of reliability.A team of researchers at UBCO's Heart Valve Performance Lab (HVPL) has developed a way to improve overall blood flow through the valves, so the design of mechanical heart valves will more closely match the real thing.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news