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Polymeric heart valves offer potential durability and hemocompatibility, though clinical realization has been hampered by in vivo calcification, degradation, and thrombosis.
Polymeric heart valves offer potential durability and hemocompatibility advantages over current tissue and mechanical valves, though clinical realization requires overcoming calcification, degradation, and thrombosis.
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Polymeric valves should not yet change practice; leaves open material innovations to overcome calcification, degradation, and thrombosis.
Claiborne et al. (2012) conducted a review in Valvular heart disease. Polymeric heart valves (PHVs) was evaluated. Polymeric heart valves offer potential durability and hemocompatibility, though clinical realization has been hampered by in vivo calcification, degradation, and thrombosis.
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