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Heart Valve Grows With Children


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Cardiac surgeons at the Boston Children’s Hospital in collaboration with MIT bioengineers developed the first prosthetic pulmonary valve replacement that can expand as a child’s anatomy dictates. The so-called Autus Valve is now undergoing clinical testing in children ages 2 to 11 at Boston Children’s, Ohio’s Nationwide Children’s, and New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-heart-valve-child-invasive-surgeries.html
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Dr. Howard Smith ReportsBy Howard G. Smith MD, AM