UBC Okanagan develops groundbreaking synthetic heart valves

Researchers at UBC Okanagan say they’ve made a breakthrough in their quest to make heart surgery safer and less invasive, by creating a synthetic heart valve.
Instead of open heart surgery, patients would have the valve inserted using a catheter, which would give patients 75 and older and thus considered too high risk for the invasive surgery the chance to extend their life with new valves, said Hadi Mahammadi, an assistant professor at the Heart Valve Performance Laboratory at the univers