Instead of open heart surgery, patients would have the valve inserted using a catheter,
Researchers at UBC Okanagan say they’ve made a breakthrough in their quest to make heart surgery safer and less invasive, by creating a synthetic heart valve.
About 10 per cent of seniors over 75 experience so-called mitral regurgitation — blood leaking backwards through a valve — that reduces cardiac output and can be life-threatening, said Dylan Goode, a graduate student researcher at the lab. “It’s risky, sometimes it doesn’t work,” said Mahammadi. Implanting animal tissue in human can cause a number of complications.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
UBC researchers create robot to help soothe pain of neonatal intensive-care-unit babies“Calmer” was created to mimic “hand-hugging,” a treatment in which a premature baby is gently held in a curled position to manage pain.
Read more »
Elizabeth Murphy: Better, cheaper options than SkyTrain to UBC should be consideredThe recent McElhanney Consulting draft report used to justify a Broadway subway extension of the SkyTrain Millennium Line to UBC raises many questions regarding SNC-Lavalin involvement, assumptions…
Read more »
Canadian, eh? UBC quarterback Michael O'Connor chases CFL dreamTORONTO – Michael O’Connor is hoping CFL teams will look beyond his birth certificate and the stigma it may bring and give him a shot at playing quarterback.Nicknamed Wacky, O’Con…
Read more »
Stolen Bentley seen driving the wrong way on Coquihalla found in OkanaganA luxury vehicle that was seen driving in the wrong direction along the Coquihalla Highway was ditched nearly 400 km from where it was stolen.
Read more »
UBC researchers create robot to help soothe pain of neonatal intensive-care-unit babies“Calmer” was created to mimic “hand-hugging,” a treatment in which a premature baby is gently held in a curled position to manage pain.
Read more »
Elizabeth Murphy: Better, cheaper options than SkyTrain to UBC should be consideredThe recent McElhanney Consulting draft report used to justify a Broadway subway extension of the SkyTrain Millennium Line to UBC raises many questions regarding SNC-Lavalin involvement, assumptions…
Read more »
Russian rockets and Libyan mortars: How Hamas developed an advanced arsenal in the blockaded Gaza stripThe group started with crude short-range projectiles and now possesses rockets that can strike virtually anywhere in Israel
Read more »