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Among the sickest patients waiting were some 12 who needed new heart valves.
That week, however, he didn't have the suture he needed to sew in the valves.
The request came because of new findings from doctors that indicated use of the substances was correlated with serious abnormalities in heart valves, a suspicion first revealed to the FDA and in the press last July.
Harvey also observed that the heart was a contractile muscle with one-way valves between the chambers on each side.
Except for the catalyst, most of the material/equipment used to assemble an SCR system is either standard mechanical and electrical components (pumps, blowers, valves, piping, heaters, pressure vessels, temperature and pressure sensors, etc.) or is largely manufactured for other power plant applications and has been adopted for use in SCR systems (cleaning devices such as soot blowers or sonic horns, gas analyzers, etc.).