JULY 15, 2024 by David Hilzenrath, Holly K. Hacker, KFF Health News MitraClip. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Hellerhoff Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.In 2013, the FDA approved an implantable device to treat leaky heart valves. Among its inventors was Mehmet Oz, the former television personality and former U.S. Senate candidate widely known as “Dr....
by University of Minnesota An exterior view of the sewn tri-leaflet valve. Credit: Z.H. Syedain et al., Science Translational Medicine (2021) A groundbreaking new study led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers from both the College of Science and Engineering and the Medical School shows for the first time that lab-created heart valves implanted in young lambs for a...
