Non-Intrusive Heart Valve Replacement Procedure

Existing medical solutions for congestive heart failure and heart valve disease usually involve major surgery that cuts into the heart itself, or a heart transplant. Bret Park, a mechanical engineer at Diesel Power Source of South Jordan, UT, has developed a procedure to replace leaking or regurgitating heart valves without touching the heart. The One-Way Heart Assist Valve technology can be placed upstream or downstream from the heart and the function is very similar to having a good valve inside the heart. Multiple instances of the new valves may be used in several veins or arteries to help make the heart efficient again. The pressures and stresses on the arterial and vein walls will increase between the One-Way Heart Assist Valve and the heart. To address this issue, a patent-pending sleeve and/or stent can be placed between the valve and the heart vein. Park holds several patents related to automotive, medical, drilling, and fluid dynamics and is trying to raise sufficient funds for the One-Way Heart Assist Valve through the crowdfunding website Indiegogo  so that animal testing can begin.

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00:00:01 heart valve disease is when the vves of the heart become damaged or begin to leak and flow backwards this leads to very acidic blood that is toxic to the patient's body in other words the blood becomes poisonous for those with heart valve disease that are too high of a risk for valve replacement surgery they are left with no Alternatives introducing the pattern pending one-way

00:00:25 hard assist valve for demonstration purposes this pump represents a normal healthy heart with good valves it takes 10 pumps to displace about 550 ML of fluid and this represents a heart with a leaking or regurgitating valve in this case we have completely removed the inlet valve to show an extreme case of how inefficient this pump is after 10 pumps this pump has displaced a small

00:00:51 fraction of the fluid the good pump did if a patient had this inefficient of a heart the patient would likely be dead now using the same bad pump we will show how well our one-way heart assist valve works by placing a good valve Upstream from the heart because fluid doesn't easily compress when we place our good valve Upstream from the pump it displaces fluid with virtually identical

00:01:16 efficiency to the completely good pump so if this representation were a patient with valvular heart disease the patient could likely leave the hospital within 24 hours and have a new working valve without touching the heart yeah