The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV), an artificial heart valve made from the jugular vein valve of a cow. The Melody TPV serves as a treatment for a failing pulmonary valve conduit, in order to delay open heart surgery in patients with heart defects.

Read the FDA’s Medical Device Announcement.

Keywords: Animals, Cardiac Surgical Procedures, Cattle, Computers, Heart Defects, Congenital, Heart, Artificial, Jugular Veins, Pulmonary Valve, United States, United States Food and Drug Administration

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