BASILICA Procedure Prevents Coronary Obstruction From TAVR

BASILICA Procedure Prevents Coronary Obstruction From TAVR

A novel technique has proven preventing coronary artery during transcatheter aortic valve (TAVR), the technique will treatment BASILICA Procedure Prevents options for high-risk who need heart valve The findings by at the National Institutes Health (NIH) were published the Journal the College Cardiology: Cardiovascular June 12, TAVR offers effective and less invasive to open heart surgery. However, this complication has fatal. During TAVR.

Paper is at the heart of an experimental device developed by Rice University bioengineers to study heart disease. They are using paper-based structures that mimic the layered nature of aortic valves, the tough, flexible tissues that keep blood flowing through the heart in one direction only. The devices allow the engineers to study in detail how calcifying diseases slow or stop hearts from functioning. The work by the Brown School of Engineering team, detailed in Acta Biomaterialia, shows aortic valve disease that collagen 1, a natural protein and a component of the valves' fibrous extracellular matrix, appears to have a strong association with calcification when it is found outside its usual domain. Valves hardened by calcium deposits are less flexible and lose their ability to seal the heart's chambers. "When tissues make a lot of excess type 1 collagen, it's called fibrosis," said Rice bioengineer Jane Grande-Allen, who directed the study with Rice graduate student and lead author Madeline Monroe.

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