{"id":34899,"date":"2022-06-15T03:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=34899"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:03:10","slug":"tissue-valve-assembly-avalus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/06\/15\/tissue-valve-assembly-avalus\/","title":{"rendered":"How It Works: Tissue Heart Valve Replacement Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered, &#8220;How is a tissue heart valve replacement assembled?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If so&#8230; This video of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medtronic.com\/us-en\/healthcare-professionals\/products\/cardiovascular\/heart-valves-surgical\/avalus-bioprostheses.html\">Avalus tissue valve<\/a>, which I just came across on YouTube, might be interesting to you.\u00a0 Although there is <strong>no sound in the video<\/strong>, it&#8217;s really quite amazing to see how the different elements of this valve come together including the frame, the leaflets and the stitching.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9dJbgYKeRVs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but I found this video really helped me better understand and visualize the assembly process of this specific valve. <\/p>\n<p>There are many other valve types (e.g. mechanical valves) made by different medical companies.  So, I imagine each valve replacement may have its own unique and proprietary process for heart valve manufacturing and assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/pig-valve-replacement\/\">Pig Valve Replacements: 10 Important Facts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/cow-valve-replacement.php\">Cow Tissue Valves: What Should Patients Know?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heart-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43617,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34899\/revisions\/43617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}