1.   Alarming numbers of Fen-Phen users, they found, were turning up with damaged heart valves.

2.   Heart valves are vital for transplantation into children born with valve defects and adults with diseased or worn valves.

3.   Until we increase it by surgery for disease of aorta, renal failure, therapy for blindness, replacement of a heart valve and organ transplant.

4.   Romania has no replacement heart valves so PC Pick contacted the Freeman Hospital, famed for pioneering heart surgery.

5.   Although the disease is rare, prevention is considered essential because endocarditis can be fatal or cause devastating complications, including destruction of the heart valves and stroke.

6.   Among the research under way is a project to develop heart valves that are resistant to calcification, a common reason for failure.

7.   And though he continued to suffer from a leaky heart valve, from all reports he regained robust health quickly for a man of his years.

8.   Artificial heart valves, metal and plastic.

9.   At that point there was not even a hint that the drugs could damage heart valves, the problem that has suddenly and unexpectedly surfaced.

10.   A donor potentially can give a heart, lung, kidneys, pancreas, liver, intestine, bone, veins, heart valves, skin and corneas.