Are animal experiments the crux for decision making in whether new heart valves can be brought to clinical practice?

EuroIntervention

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 643-645

  Bonhoeffer, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEVICE FAILURE; EDITORIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE REGULATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ANIMAL; AORTA VALVE; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MODEL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSTHESIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 77956622848     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV5I6A103     Document Type: Editorial

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