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Doctor AGK Gokhale has performed this rare surgery and replaced the aortic valve and implanted the LVAD. This was done for the first time in Andhra Pradesh and so far, only 4 such implantations were done in India.
An experimental device made from layered filter paper is helping Rice University bioengineers study calcifying heart diseases.
The filter paper is structured in a way that mimics the layering of aortic heart valves, recreating the means by which cells spread through cardiac tissue in a laboratory setting. It may not look much like a heart valve, but in practice it simulates the proliferation process in the same way.