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Due to its unique properties, titanium and its alloys have found many applications in cardiovascular medicine. One of the earliest applications was in prosthetic heart valves and in protective cases of pacemakers. Later, titanium was used in artificial hearts and circulatory assist devices. Recently, the use of shape memory titanium-nickel (Nitinol) alloy in intravascular devices such as stents and occlusion coils has received considerable attention. An advantage of titanium in cardiovascular applications is that it is strong, inert and non-magnetic. It will produce few artifacts when studied with magnetic resonance (MR), a diagnostic modality that is getting increasingly common. A disadvantage is that it is not sufficiently radio-opaque in finer structures.
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Olin, C. (2001). Titanium in Cardiac and Cardiovascular Applications. In: Titanium in Medicine. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56486-4_26
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