{"id":599,"date":"2008-10-03T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/10\/03\/prosthesis-valve-replacements-definition-pictures-and-use\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T13:42:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T18:42:01","slug":"prosthesis-valve-replacements-definition-pictures-and-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/10\/03\/prosthesis-valve-replacements-definition-pictures-and-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosthetic Heart Valve Replacements &#8211; Definition, Pictures And Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill writes to me, &#8220;Hi Adam &#8211; My world is upside down right now. My dad was just told that he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/aortic-valve-regurgitation-symptoms.php\">aortic valve regurgitation<\/a> and needs a prosthesis valve (or at least I think that is what he said). Can you help me understand what all of this means? Plus, I&#8217;m a visual person. If you have any pictures of a <em>valve prosthesis<\/em> that would be great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Jill&#8217;s description, it appears that her father is in definite need of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-replacement.php\">a heart valve replacement<\/a>. That said, Jill&#8217;s father will need a <em>prosthetic valve transplant<\/em> to enhance the flow of blood through his heart.<\/p>\n<p>According to Heart Health Online, a prosthetic heart valve is a replacement for a diseased or dysfunctional heart valve. There are two types of artificial valves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mechanical heart valve &#8211; A <em>mechanical heart valve prosthesis<\/em> is made of man-made materials. The advantage of mechanical valves is that they can usually last a lifetime. They do not wear out the way natural or biological valves do. Here is a picture of a Medtronic mechanical heart valve replacement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/medtronic-heart-valve-mechanical.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"139\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biological heart valves &#8211; A <em>biological heart valve prosthesis<\/em> is made from tissue taken from animals or human cadavers. These bioprosthetic heart valve replacements are treated with preservatives and sterilized for human implantation. Here is a picture of a Edwards Lifesciences biological heart valve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/edwards-magna-valve.gif\" width=\"175\" height=\"105\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I know that is a very, very, very simple description of the two types of prosthetic heart valves. To further your inquiry into prosthetic heart valves, I have included several links to other blogs about valve prosthesis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/09\/10\/mechanical-aortic-valve-replacement-devices\/\">Mechanical Aortic Valve Replacement Options<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/29\/mechanical-or-bioprosthetic-heart-valve-replacements\/\">Trade-offs Between Mechanical and Biological Valve Replacements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/09\/02\/latest-technology-in-aortic-valve-surgery\/\">Latest Technology In Aortic Valve Replacement Prosthesis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/09\/19\/pig-valve-replacement\/\">Information about pig valve replacements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/23\/cow-valve-replacement-surgery-bovine-valves\/\">Information about cow (bovine) valve replacements<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that helps answer Jill&#8217;s question about valve prosthesis. Please let me know if you have any other questions.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}