Prosthetic Vein Valve Designed to Improve Blood Flow

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_503" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="David Ku has led research at the Georgia Institute of Technology on a prosthetic vein valve to treat chronic venous insufficiency."][/caption] Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA) have developed a prosthetic vein valve to treat chronic venous insufficiency, which occurs when ...