Partial Heart Transplant Growth and Hemodynamic Function in Piglets
Lillian Kang, Berk Aykut, Herra Javed, Deani H McVadon, Randall S Prather, Douglas M Overbey, Joseph W Turek, Taufiek K Rajab · 2025
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Description
Lillian Kang and co-authors test a bold idea in piglets in a 2025 paper: transplant just part of a heart. Babies most often need the lung-side heart valve swapped. No made valve comes small enough, so doctors use valves from dead donors, which hold no live cells and cannot grow.
A baby with a dead valve faces swap after swap until an adult size fits. A part transplant takes just the valve from a donor heart, live cells and all. Since whole-heart valves are known to grow, the part may grow too. The piglet work checks growth and flow strength. If it holds, babies could keep one valve as they grow.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lillian Kang, Berk Aykut, Herra Javed, Deani H McVadon, Randall S Prather, Douglas M Overbey, Joseph W Turek, Taufiek K Rajab |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 7 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |