The MIT engineers developed a procedure to 3D print a soft and flexible replica of a patient s heart, including a patient s aorta the major artery that carries blood out of the heart to the rest of the body.
Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology (MIT) have created a replica of patient s heart that they say can even start to pump like the real thing.
From Bloomberg: Using scans from 15 patients with aortic stenosis, a narrowing of heart valves that impedes blood flow, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Cleveland Clinic and other institutions developed a system that mimics blood flow and pressure in individual diseased hearts.
No two hearts beat alike. The size and shape of the the heart can vary from one person to the next. These differences can be particularly pronounced for people living with heart disease, as their hearts and major vessels work harder to overcome any compromised function.
A team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, has developed a custom robotic heart that can help doctors tailor treatments to patients' specific heart form and function.The engineers developed a procedure to 3D print a .