Advantages and disadvantages of mechanical valves, Biology

Advantages

Durability of these vales are long lasting.

Disadvantages

Need for anticoagulant therapy is life long.
Risk of thrombo-embolism is high.
Other associated problems included are para-valvular leak and endocarditis.
Valve replacement may be single valve replacement or double valve replacement (MVR, DVR, MVR+ AVR)
Coronary artery bypass graft-coronary artery block.
Resection of thoracic aortic aneurysm-thoracic aortic aneurysm.
Excision of fibrous tissue or myxoma. Removal left atrial tumor.

Related Discussions:- Advantages and disadvantages of mechanical valves

Identical chromatids bound, What is the structure that maintains identical ...

What is the structure that maintains identical chromatids bound? Ans) The structure that handles identical chromatids bound is the centromere.

Define methods used in combination with pasteurization, Define methods used...

Define methods used in combination with pasteurization? Typical other methods used in combination with pasteurization include: 1. Refrigeration as in the case of milk

Circulatory system, Circulatory system, closed is a system which uses a co...

Circulatory system, closed is a system which uses a continuous series of the vessels of different sizes to deliver blood to body cells and return it back to the heart; it is found

Digestive System, How the digestive system work?

How the digestive system work?

Why is blood significant for larger animals, What is the alternative means ...

What is the alternative means for transport of substances in animals without a circulatory system? Why is blood significant for larger animals? In animals that do not present t

How many progeny flies are expected, How many progeny flies are expected to...

How many progeny flies are expected to have full wings and gray bodies?

Why in the f1 generation is one of the colors missing, Considering hybridiz...

Considering hybridization in a trait like the color of the flowers of a given plant species (red/yellow) conditioned by a pair of different alleles in relation to complete dominanc

Explain the digestive system, Explain the Digestive System ? The diges...

Explain the Digestive System ? The digestive system takes in food and processes it. Digestion is the mechanical and chemical breaking down of food into a form that can be used

What are the main types of cancer that affect humans, Q. What are the main ...

Q. What are the main types of cancer that affect humans? An Excluding skin cancer, that are the more easily detected and so cases are registered in larger number, the main type

Issues impacting health and development - limited resources, Normal 0 ...

Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4

Write Your Message!

Name

Email id

Message

Verfication Code

User Account

All Pages