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Valvular heart disease is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality world wide (Rabago, 1987). In the United States, approximately 20,000 Americans die as a direct result of their valvular dysfunction every year. In 1991, 58,000 valve replacement operations were performed in this country (Brauswald, 1994). In pediatric patients all four cardiac valves may have abnormalities in association with various complex congenital lesions (Mullins, 1993).
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Shin’oka, T., Mayer, J.E. (1997). New Frontiers in Tissue Engineering: Tissue Engineered Heart Valves. In: Atala, A., Mooney, D.J. (eds) Synthetic Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4154-6_10
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