SpaceNews

Valve malfunction blamed for failure of Indian satellite to raise its orbit

HOUSTON — India’s space agency says a valve failure prevented a navigation spacecraft launched more than a year ago from raising its orbit. In a Feb. 25 statement, the Indian Space Research ...
uniindia

NVS-02 spacecraft missed Orbit as drive signal not reachedg pyro valve of oxidizer line of engine for orbit raising : ISRO

Chennai, Feb 26 (UNI) Citing the on-orbit observations and recommendations of the Apex Committee, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said that drive signal not reaching the pyro valve ...
BMJ

Patient-prosthesis mismatch following aortic valve replacement

Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm 2 /m 2 following ...
BMJ

21 Long term follow-up and outcomes after valve replacement – a 10-year, single-centre experience of the heart valve surveillance clinic

Introduction The long-term management of patients following valve replacement is challenging. The fields of percutaneous and surgical valves are expanding rapidly, leading to increased service demands ...
American College of Cardiology

Insights From the MATTERHORN: Transcatheter Repair vs. Mitral Valve Surgery For Secondary Mitral Regurgitation

Based on the results from the MATTERHORN (A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Study to Assess Mitral Valve Reconstruction for Advanced Insufficiency of Functional or Ischemic Origin), transcatheter ...
American College of Cardiology

FDA Update: Agency Approves EVOQUE System For TR

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the EVOQUE tricuspid valve replacement system for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation (TR). According to an Edwards press release, “it is ...