{"585160":{"#nid":"585160","#data":{"type":"news","title":"3-D Printing Gets a Heart to Help Improve Valve Replacement Procedures ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETens of thousands of patients each year are diagnosed with heart valve disease, with many in need of lifesaving surgery to treat the condition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, researchers at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute are working on a tool that could help cardiologists care for patients with the disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing highly detailed imaging from CT scans, mechanical engineers are using 3-D printers to make an exact model of an individual patient\u0026rsquo;s heart valve. These one-of-a-kind models not only represent the size and proportion of the heart valve but can also mimic its physiological qualities \u0026mdash; such as how it feels and responds to pressure.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe goal is to provide doctors with a new tool for planning procedures to treat aortic stenosis, a condition in which the valves in the left side of the heart narrow, restricting blood flow and potentially leading to heart failure. The condition is commonly associated with elderly patients, and its prevalence is thought to be on the rise as the population ages.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/features\/3-d-printing-gets-heart\u0022\u003ERead the complete article\u003C\/a\u003E in Research Horizons magazine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETens of thousands of patients each year are diagnosed with heart valve disease, with many in need of lifesaving surgery to treat the condition. Now, researchers at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute are working on a tool that could help cardiologists care for patients with the disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers are developing a tool that could help cardiologists treat patients with heart valve disease."}],"uid":"27303","created_gmt":"2016-12-15 21:38:45","changed_gmt":"2016-12-15 21:40:41","author":"John Toon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"585158":{"id":"585158","type":"image","title":"3-D Printed Heart Valve Model","body":null,"created":"1481837320","gmt_created":"2016-12-15 21:28:40","changed":"1481837320","gmt_changed":"2016-12-15 21:28:40","alt":"3-D printed model of heart valve","file":{"fid":"223090","name":"3d-heart-valve.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/3d-heart-valve.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/3d-heart-valve.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":706466,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/3d-heart-valve.jpg?itok=eupkmBGF"}},"585159":{"id":"585159","type":"image","title":"Inspecting printed heart valve","body":null,"created":"1481837503","gmt_created":"2016-12-15 21:31:43","changed":"1481837503","gmt_changed":"2016-12-15 21:31:43","alt":"Inspecting printed heart valve","file":{"fid":"223091","name":"heart-valve-piedmont.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/heart-valve-piedmont.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/heart-valve-piedmont.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1265983,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/heart-valve-piedmont.jpg?itok=Pa3Rz2X6"}}},"media_ids":["585158","585159"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"6119","name":"heart valve"},{"id":"173033","name":"3-D printing"},{"id":"2581","name":"cardiology"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosh Brown\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch News\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E(404) 385-0500\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["josh.brown@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}