Yet another Success story re the ball/ cage valve. Just shows what is possible with the new generation of mech valves!
During a routine physical in 1965, Philip Bryson learned that he had a life-threatening heart murmur. Follow-up exams revealed that he'd been born with a defective aortic valve, and at age 25, the valve began to fail.
Fortunately for him, a young heart surgeon had devised a solution. Bryson became one of the earliest recipients of a mechanical heart valve developed by Portland surgeon Albert Starr and engineer Lowell Edwards.
More than 45 years later, the valve functions flawlessly inside Bryson's chest, opening and closing with a muffled tick-tock sound, audible across a quiet room. Bryson, who would not have lived long without a new valve, married and moved from California to Alaska, where he and his wife raised four children.
Full story below
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2010/09/post_37.html
During a routine physical in 1965, Philip Bryson learned that he had a life-threatening heart murmur. Follow-up exams revealed that he'd been born with a defective aortic valve, and at age 25, the valve began to fail.
Fortunately for him, a young heart surgeon had devised a solution. Bryson became one of the earliest recipients of a mechanical heart valve developed by Portland surgeon Albert Starr and engineer Lowell Edwards.
More than 45 years later, the valve functions flawlessly inside Bryson's chest, opening and closing with a muffled tick-tock sound, audible across a quiet room. Bryson, who would not have lived long without a new valve, married and moved from California to Alaska, where he and his wife raised four children.
Full story below
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2010/09/post_37.html
so pleased for him!!
