Answer:
reduced thrombogenicity.
Explanation:
For patients with significant heart valve disease, surgical options for treatment include valve repair or replacement. The choice between repair and replacement is influenced by a number of factors including age, type of the valve disease and other medical conditions. When valve replacement is performed, there are options of mechanical or tissue heart valves. These two classes of valves confer different characteristics and each have their advantages and disadvantages.
Mechanical valves: Mechanical heart valves are made from materials such as titanium and carbon. They usually consist of two leaflets and a metal ring surrounded by a ring of knitted fabric, which is sewn onto the heart in place of the original valve.The main advantage of mechanical valves is that they are very durable. However, these valves provide a surface on which blood clots can form easily. As a result, anyone who has been implanted with a mechanical valve needs to be on lifelong blood-thinning medication, such as warfarin, to prevent the development of blood clots that can cause heart attack or stroke
Tissue valves, also known as biological or bioprosthetic valves, are composed of animal or human tissue. The valves are derived from animal tissue such as porcine (pig), bovine (cow) and equine (horse) models, and then fixed with a preserving solution that may be mounted on a flexible frame to assist in deployment during surgery. As with mechanical valves, the bottom of a tissue valve is often surrounded by a ring of knitted fabric that is sewn onto the heart. In addition to animal-derived valves, a human tissue valve from a donor human heart, known as an allograft or homograft, may also be used as a replacement valve. Tissue valves can be used in open heart surgery or in a minimally invasive aortic operation known as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
Advantages of tissue valves compared to mechanical valves include the avoidance of lifelong warfarin therapy to prevent the development of blood clots.
Absorption would be the appropriate term to describe the movement of organic substrates, inorganic ions, vitamins, and water flowing from the epithelium to the interstitial fluid of the digestive tract. The action is a significant digestive process because the absorbed substance would be distributed to the cells via the bloodstream.
Which is more important and why? Brain of spinal cord
False
Coccidioides immitis is not a member of domain bacteria.
Coccidioides immitis is a dimorphic fungus that causes the fungal disease; coccidioidomycosis. Coccidioides immitis is mainly found in soils and it exists in two different forms (saprophytic and parasitic). When Coccidioides immitis enter a host, their spores separates from the hyphae and develop into round structures (spherules) that divides to form endospores which causes infection within the host.
Pepsin is one of three principal protein-degrading enzymes in the
digestive system, the other two being chymotrypsin and trypsin. During
the process of digestion, these enzymes collaborate to break down
dietary proteins to their components, i.e., peptides and amino acids.
