A biological heart valve is a heart valve recovered from a donor or created from donor tissue. A cadaveric valve comes from a human donor. Bovine valves are recovered from cows and porcine valves ...

Finally the second heart sound may be reduced in intensity ... It is a trileaflet valve made from bovine pericardium in a stainless steel frame that is designed to be expanded by a balloon.

As part of National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day area cardiologists want everyone to know the importance of this condition which occurs when the valves in the heart stop working properly and ...