Surgical planning technique involving 3D printed aortas may provide stepping stone to the future of cardiac valve replacement

Teams from the Ohio State University (OH, USA) have collaborated to personalize and improve the current standards of care of patients receiving aortic valve replacements, through 3D printed and modelled surgical planning techniques. Physicians from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OH, USA) and biomedical engineers from Ohio State's College of Engineering (OH, USA) are in collaboration to improve the current standards of care of patients receiving aortic valve replacements based on a previous method from the College of Engineering to model, predict and therefore avoid potential complications. In the case of aortic stenosis, there are two options to...