Mechanisms and Drug Therapies of Bioprosthetic Heart Valve Calcification

• Main Authors: Shuyu Wen (Author), Ying Zhou (Author), Wai Yen Yim (Author), Shijie Wang (Author), Li Xu (Author), Jiawei Shi (Author), Weihua Qiao (Author), Nianguo Dong (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Valve replacement is the main therapy for valvular heart disease, in which a diseased valve is replaced by mechanical heart valve (MHV) or bioprosthetic heart valve (BHV). Since the 2000s, BHV surpassed MHV as the leading option of prosthetic valve substitute because of its excellent hemocompatible...