What is Artificial Heart Valve?

** An artificial heart valve is a apparatus implanted 

in the heart of a persevering with heart valvular 

infection. 

**When one of the four heart valves malfunctions, 

the health alternative may be to restore the natural 

valve with an 

artificial valve. 

** This needs open-heart surgery.

Types of heart valve prostheses

There are two major kinds of artificial heart valves:

      1) Biological heart valves

2)Mechanical valves

1- Biological heart valves:

 ** Allograft/isograft

 ** Xenograft

2- Mechanical valves:

** Percutaneous implantation

** Sternotomy/Thoracotomy implantation

** Ball and cage

** Stent bordered

** Not bordered

** Bi-leaflet

** Tilting computer disk

** Tri-leaflet