Press Release

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

TV report: Will artificial and pig heart valves soon be a thing of the past?

Professor Haverich gives TV interview for the medical magazine programme ‘Visite’

On 22 November 2011 at 8.15 p.m. in its feature item entitled ‘New heart valves: which method for which patient?’ the NDR network’s health show ‘Visite’ reported on the currently available therapies for heart valve defects. It presented the three alternative approaches – the mechanical valve, the biological valve and the new valve that grows with the body. Professor Axel Haverich then fielded questions from host Vera Cordis and the studio audience on the topic of ‘Will artificial and pig heart valves soon be a thing of the past?’

You can watch these TV reports in German here:

New heart valves: which method for which patient?

Will artificial and pig heart valves soon be a thing of the past?