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). 

News | Congenital Heart

May 6, 2015 — A retrospective review of 633 adults and children who underwent bioprosthetic pulmonary valve replacement ...

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Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, TMVR, Tendyne, FDA, first implant, U.S.
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April 24, 2015 — Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (MHIF) physicians are conducting a research study using the ...

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April 22, 2015 — Comparing mechanical prosthetic and bioprosthetic mitral valves, a study in the April 14 issue of the J ...

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April 2, 2015 — Medtronic announced Japanese regulatory approval for the self-expanding transcatheter CoreValve system ...

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March 31, 2015 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the approved use of the CoreValve self-expanding ...

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March 26, 2015 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that chairman and CEO Michael A. Mussallem served as an invited ...

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TAVR, transcatheter heart valves, GlobalData, TMVR
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March 26, 2015 — Research and consulting firm GlobalData reported that the global market value for transcatheter heart ...

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The biggest technology news coming out of the 2015 American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual scientific sessions ...

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March 25, 2015 — A new expert consensus paper released by a coalition of cardiovascular organizations provides guidance ...

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March 25, 2015 — The Sapien 3 heart valve (Edwards Lifesciences) demonstrated lower death, stroke and paravalvular leak ...
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Mitralign, transcatheter triscupid repair, TTVR, TR, first in human
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March 23, 2015 — A detailed reporting of the first successful case of a direct transcatheter tricuspid repair (TTVR) for ...

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Mitraclip, abbott, mitral valve repair, ACC, transcatheter mitral valve repair
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March 20, 2015 —The commercial track record with transcatheter mitral valve repair, approved for patients at high risk ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Several late-breaking trials for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were presented at the American College of ...

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March 19, 2015 — An investigational device that deflects debris away from the brain during transcatheter aortic valve ...

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March 18, 2015 — New study results from The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN) show the addition of surgical ...

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