New heart valve prosthesis lasts forever: Repeated operations become superfluous

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New heart valve prosthesis lasts forever: Repeated operations become superfluous

In Germany alone, more than 24,000 defective heart valves are replaced by prostheses every year. For many patients it is already the second or even third operation in the same place, because replacement lasts at least 15 years. In children, such prostheses have to be replaced earlier, because they do not grow with them. Image: Georgia Institute of Technology Heart valve from the printer All these problems have now been solved by medical speciali…