Hyderabad surgeon develops US-patented heart valve to prevent blood clots

Hyderabad, Nov 10 (UNI) 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…