Abstract: Improved heart valve assembly 1(FIG. 4) includes: Sewing ring 2 made preferably of woven/knitted fabric of carbon/carbon coated polyester/polytetra-fluoroethylene;Metallic valve housing 3, with external groove accommodating sewing ring, with flat lugs 3a on one side and lug 3b having hook 3c on the other side, said housing being preferably made of "Stellite", titanium or alloys of titanium with aluminum, vanadium or palladium or of stainless steel or cobalt based alloys optionally with coating of boron nitride, titanium nitride or diamond and;Valve occluder disc 4 made of Agate, polyacetal homopolymer, synthetic sapphire, synthetic ruby, corundum or ceramics like alumina, tungsten carbide, titanium carbide or their mixture or of metals like aluminum, titanium, steel or cobalt-chromium-tungsten alloy having coating of one or more of said ceramics, and tapered surface 4a with depression/groove 4c therein held by hook 3c on its less pronounced depression 4d as seen in FIG. 5 more clearly.