Bjork-Shiley valve

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Björk-Shi·ley valve

(byōrk shī'lē),

a low profile tilting disc mechanical heart valve.

Björk,

V.O., 20th century Swedish cardiothoracic surgeon.

Björk-Shiley valve - prosthetic aortic/mitral valve.

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With the Bjork-Shiley valve foremost in their minds, lawmakers passed the Safe Medical Devices Act of 1990, greatly enlarging the FDA's authority to regulate manufacturers of medical devices.

The FDA Follies

A study of a small number of Bjork-Shiley valve implants indicates a significantly higher strut fracture rate than previously expected.

New research on Bjork-Shiley C/C artificial heart valves

If a typical sentence from your daily correspondence reads: "Mr Jones, who has a Bjork-Shiley valve, has received bacille Calmette-Guerin, and carries diagnoses of Creutzfeldt-Jakob dementia and bancroftian filariasis.

Dorlands' Electronic Medical Speller

Particularly high-risk prostheses include the Starr-Edwards and Bjork-Shiley valves.