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Heart Valve Prosthesis

"Heart Valve Prosthesis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A device that substitutes for a heart valve. It may be composed of biological material (BIOPROSTHESIS) and/or synthetic material.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Heart Valve Prosthesis" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Heart Valve Prosthesis" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 755 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 66 publications in 2020
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.