The porcine heart is a suitable experimental model for designing and testing new devices for catheter-based composite repair of the aortic root, provided devices are adapted to its smaller dimensions compared to human hearts.
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Requires size-adapted devices for porcine aortic root studies; leaves open human translation without further validation.
Wang et al. (2017) studied this question.
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