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 10, 2014 — Mitralign Inc. has completed enrollment in a clinical study in Europe investigating its lead device ...

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The biggest news item from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 63rd Annual Scientific Session ...

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April 7, 2014 — A first-ever randomized head-to-head comparison of two devices commonly used to treat aortic stenosis ...

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The biggest late-breaking news to come out of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2014 meeting was from the ...

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April 2, 2014 — The key trial presented at the 2014 American College of Cardiology (ACC), which will likely be the one ...

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April 1, 2014 — Medtronic Inc. announced the one-year results of the Melody transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) U.S ...

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Data from several cutting-edge device clinical trials will be presented as late-breakers ...

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March 19, 2014 — Surgeons in France have successfully replaced the aortic valve in two patients without opening the ches ...

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March 12, 2014 — Privately held On-X Life Technologies Inc. (On-X LTI) launched its European marketing campaign for the ...

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Edwards Lifesciences Fortis Mitral Transcatheter Valve System Heart Valve Repair
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March 6, 2014 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced the successful completion of the first three human implants of its ...

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March 6, 2014 — At age 88, Lena M. Smith visited her doctor, Larry Hunt, M.D., at the University of Alabama at ...

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Boston Scientific Lotus Aortic Valve Repair Heart Hybrid OR Cath Lab
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March 5, 2014 — Boston Scientific’s Lotus transcatheter aortic valve repair (TAVR) system was implanted for the first ...

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February 27, 2014 — A new imaging technique for measuring blood flow in the heart and vessels can diagnose bicuspid ...

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Neovasc Tiara transcatheter mitral valve heart repair clinical trial study
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February 18, 2014 — Neovasc Inc. announced that a first-in-human implantation of its Tiara transcatheter mitral valve wa ...

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TAVR Heart valve repair Hybrid OR
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February 17, 2014 — A team of interventional cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons at The University of Texas Health ...
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