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a: Valve before the stent is fastened. b: Valve sewn inside the platinum stent. c: Stent valve on a balloon catheter. d: Prosthetic stent-valve loaded into the delivery device. The blue dot on the shaft of the delivery device is an orientation marker that is visible under MRI.
