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2. Northern General Hospital - Wikipedia

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   The City General Hospital performed the world's first heart valve replacement operation in 1955 before it merged with the Fir Vale Infirmary to form the Northern General Hospital in 1967. [1] The hospital was the main receiving station for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. [1]

3. Valve replacement - Wikipedia

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   Valve replacement surgery is the replacement of one or more of the heart valves with either an artificial heart valve or a bioprosthesis (homograft from human tissue or xenograft e.g. from pig). It is an alternative to valve repair .

4. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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   Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust located in the suburb of Broadgreen within the city of Liverpool, England.It manages the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital which serves the population of Merseyside, North West England, North Wales and the Isle of Man but also provides some specialist services for patients from all areas of the United Kingdom ...

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   This procedure - carried out on 8,000 people a year with around 2-3,000 people on the waiting list - improves the blood flow in your heart by replacing an aortic valve that doesn’t open fully.

6. Aortic valve replacement - Wikipedia

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   Tissue heart valves are usually made from animal tissue (heterografts) mounted on a metal or polymer support. [14] Bovine (cow) tissue is most commonly used, but some are made from porcine (pig) tissue. [15] The tissue is treated to prevent rejection and calcification (where calcium builds up on the replacement valve and stops it working ...

7. Aortic valvuloplasty - Wikipedia

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   Guidelines and indications are specific to different patient populations. For adults with aortic stenosis, guidelines suggest that balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) is to be used as a temporary procedure to improve blood flow through the aortic valve to alleviate symptoms and stabilize clinically before having more invasive procedures done, including aortic valve replacement (AVR) or ...