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How 3D Printing Can Help Mend a Broken Heart

No, this isn't another silly love song; new technology may help transform cardiology.
A false-color scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a blood clot protruding from an arterial entrance in a heart chamber. This type of clot, known as coronary thrombosis, is the usual cause of myocardial infarction (heart attack).
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Each year, more than 700,000 people suffer myocardial infarction, aka a heart attack. Thanks to medical advances, there are myriad ways for a doctor to get the blood properly pumping and save a person’s life. A cardiologist might give a patient medication to clear or loosen

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