Carbon fiber heart valve has improved biocompatibility.(Medical Materials)

Advanced Materials & Processes,  September, 2003  

Tags: carbon, disk

• E-mail
• Print
• Link

A carbon fiber heart valve with improved biocompatibility has been announced by MedicalCV Inc., Inver Grove Heights, Minn. The Omnicarbon heart valve is comprised of three components: housing, disk, and sewing ring. This valve is unique in that it is the only monoleaflet valve (a valve with a single hingeless pivoting disk) to utilize pyrolytic carbon in both its housing and disk, for improved biocompatibility.

Other monoleaflet valves have metal (typically titanium) or non-pyrolytic-carbon-coated metal housings. Carbon is coated onto the graphite substrate by pyrolyzing propane ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.