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Technologies for the Heart--Karen Christman and Ashley Peterson
Pages 53-54

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From page 53...
... It is here, at the crossroads of medical knowledge and patient disease, that engineers must find new ways of transforming current medical understanding into solutions that can help to ensure the quality of human life. Not so long ago the technologies available to "fix" heart ailments focused on a brute force approach.
From page 54...
... discussed the state-of-the-art in biomaterials for treating heart tissue that has been affected by myocardial infarction. Finally, Sonna Patel-Raman (formally FDA and now Halloran Consulting Group)


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