Heart Valve Technology

This channel includes news and new device innovations about heart valve technologies, including the aortic valve, mitral valve, pulmonic valve, and tricuspid valve. This includes information on transcatheter valve technologies like transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR, or implantation TAVI), transcatheter mitral valve repair or replacement (TMVR), transcatheter and surgical valve repairs, and surgical replacement valves. Newer devices are now being used for transcatheter tricuspid valve repair replacement (TTVR). 

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April 7, 2016 — New data demonstrates that for aortic stenosis patients at intermediate-risk for open-heart surgery, tra ...

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There has been a lot of conjecture that transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) may one day replace open-heart ...

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March 31, 2016 — Patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve repair or replacement (mini-MVR) have similar ...

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March 30, 2016 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. announced European commercial market launch of the DirecTrack Delivery System ...

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March 29, 2016 — NeoChord Inc. announced that David H. Adams, M.D., and Michael A. Borger, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as ...

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DAIC readers chose the following stories as the most popular content in 2015, based on website analytics. The list is ...

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March 18, 2016 — CorMatrix Cardiovascular Inc. announced treatment of the first patient to receive their tissue ...

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While there are constant advances in cardiac technologies, it is rare when one of these new ideas may rapidly challenge ...

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March 10, 2016 — 4Tech Inc. announced that it has secured $29 million in an oversubscribed series B financing, which ...

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March 7, 2016 — Women undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) have better survival rates than men at ...

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March 7, 2016 — Medtronic plc announced the first patients enrolled in the Evolut R FORWARD Clinical Study to evaluate ...

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March 1, 2016 — JC Medical Inc. announced that it has successfully completed an implantation of its J-Valve ...

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February 29, 2016 — Abbott has initiated a voluntary safety notice regarding the MitraClip Delivery System to reinforce ...

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February 24, 2016 — A single-center study noted that treatment with Cardiac Dimensions’ Carillon Mitral Contour System ...

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February 23, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an expanded indication trial for low-risk ...

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