Artificial Hearts and Heart Valves
Necessary information on Artificial Hearts and Heart Valves for AQA Biology B3.
- Created by: Hannah Lily
- Created on: 22-04-13 21:59
View mindmap
- Replacement Hearts & Valves
- Artificial Heart
- No wait for donor
- No tissue match needed
- No immunosuppressant drugs needed
- Too much machinery to be used out of hospital
- Expensive
- blood could clot or backflow and kill patient
- Artificial Valves
- Last a long time
- Require medication that stops blood clotting
- Causes blood clots
- No risk of tissue valve failure or infection
- Artificial Heart
Comments
No comments have yet been made