Rush20
Well-known member
As a St. Jude Mechanical Valve user, I often wondered why the artificial valve is designed basically as a bicuspid valve? I had a natural bicuspid and had to have it replaced due to a bacterial infection caused by oral surgery. Or so they say. Anyway, I was wondering why the actual artificial design is a bicuspid valve? Since the more common tricuspid aortic valve is more efficient, I wonder why they haven't tried to design an artificial tricuspid aortic valve. I imagine it would be more difficult of a design. ???