Objective(s): Tissue engineering represents a new approach to solve the current complications of the heart valve replacements by offering viable valve prosthesis with growth and remodeling capability. In this project, electrospinning and dip coating techniques were used to fabricate heart valve constructs from medical grade polyurethane (PU). Methods: Fir...

INTRODUCTION Data on clinical characteristics and outcomes of infective endocarditis (IE) in the Pacific are scarce. METHODS Retrospective hospital-based study in New Caledonia, a high-income country, on patients aged over 18 years with definite IE according to the modified Duke criteria (2005-2010). RESULTS 51 patients were included: 31 (60.8%) men; median age of 52.4 years (IQR 33.0-70.0)...

blunt chest traumas mostly occur due to car accidents and can cause many cardiac complications such as septal rupture, free-wall rupture, coronary artery dissection or thrombosis, heart failure, arrhythmias, and chordae and papillary muscle rupture. one of the most serious complication is tricuspid regurgitation (tr), which can be simply diagnosed by physical examination and confirmed by echoca...

In this survey paper, Heart sound has a greater requirement for the detection of heart disease. Now a day, recently extensive research has been applied for different feature selection and classification technique. According to this survey paper we deal with the most important feature for the detection of heart disease that is feature evaluation or ranking and feature selection. They are the mos...

BACKGROUND Functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) occurs in patients with rheumatic mitral valve disease even after mitral valve surgery. The aim of this study was to analyze surgical results of TR after previous successful mitral valve surgery. METHODS From September 1996 to September 2008, 45 patients with TR after previous mitral valve replacement underwent second operation for TR. In tho...

This patient had primary Hypereosinophilic endomyocarditis “Loffler’s Endomyocarditis” complicated by intraventricular thrombosis, mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation, and associated with heparin induced thrombocytopenia syndrome. He underwent valve surgery twice for recurrence of Left ventricular thrombosis and valve dysfunction. This rare disease is characterized by peripheral hypereosin...

Heart disease, including valve pathologies, is the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite the progress made thanks to improving transplantation techniques, a perfect valve substitute has not yet been developed: once a diseased valve is replaced with current technologies, the newly implanted valve still needs to be changed some time in the future. This situation is particularly dramatic in th...

OPINION STATEMENT Heart valve disease is a major health burden, treated by either valve repair or valve replacement, depending on the affected valve. Nearly 300,000 valve replacements are performed worldwide per year. Valve replacement is lifesaving, but not without complications. The in situ tissue-engineered heart valve is a promising alternative to current treatments, but the translation of ...