2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to familiarize the reader ...

Patients with native or prosthetic valve HACEK endocarditis can be managed with a single agent administered intravenously for 4 weeks. Good oral hygiene is considered the mainstay of preventing ...

The theoretical and practical advantages of the flexible-leaflet prosthetic aortic valve make it worthy of continued development. Laboratory and clinical experience with a precision-molded, ...

Equus How did horses become some of the greatest athletes in the animal kingdom? Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have pinpointed a genetic mutation and evolutionary process that occurred ...