Cell Sources for Tissue Engineering Strategies to Treat Calcific Valve Disease

Cardiovascular calcification is an independent risk factor and an established predictor of adverse cardiovascular events. Despite concomitant factors leading to atherosclerosis and heart valve disease (VHD), the latter has been identified as an independent pathological entity. Calcific aortic valve...

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Main Authors: Eva Jover, Marco Fagnano, Gianni Angelini, Paolo Madeddu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcvm.2018.00155/full