Hyderabad, Nov. 10 -- Heart surgeon Dr Lokeswara Rao Sajja of the Sajja Heart Foundation has developed a novel heart valve designed to prevent blood clot formation, potentially eliminating the need for lifelong blood-thinning medication among patients undergoing mechanical valve replacement.
The new heart valve, which has received a US patent, has shown promising results in animal experiments, with the valves remaining free of blood clots for more than five months without the use of blood-thinning drugs, the foundation said in a release on Tuesday.
The findings have been published in two reputed international scientific journals, Nature Scientific Reports and PLOS One.
Currently, patients whose heart valves are severely damaged often und...