The Cooley-Cutter heart valve was designed in the 1960s by Denton A. Cooley, MD, in collaboration with Cutter Laboratories, and introduced for clinical use in 1971. This is a non-tilting disc valve ...
This is a Lillehei-Kaster tilting-disc valve made of pyrolytic carbon. Approximately 17,500 of these valves were distributed. It is made of titanium and pyrolite-coated graphite. It has a low embolic ...
Fluid-handling devices are not basically concerned with the modulation of power, but only with the movement of fluid. Choosing a fluid-handling valve used to be easy, because each one had its own area ...