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Equipment assists in new Heart-Valve replacement.(Machine Of The Month)(HV100 from Machine...

Repairing faulty heart valves requires gruesome surgeries that start by cracking open the chests of patients. That may soon be history, thanks to much less invasive techniques that use a stent with living tissue attached delivered with a balloon catheter or catheter delivery system. The March Machine of the Month, the HV100 from Machine Solutions Inc., Flagstaff, Ariz., (machinesolutions.org), prepares valves for placement by folding or crimping them so they deploy correctly. "Valve tissue can be up to 50mm diameter," says

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