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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May 29, 2013 — The Lotus Valve, a second-generation transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) device, was ...

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May 28, 2013 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. said it met its primary endpoint in the fully-enrolled, 100-patient DISCOVER CE ...

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May 24, 2013 — Neovasc Inc. reported positive animal data from its Tiara program for the transcatheter treatment of ...

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May 16, 2013 — Sorin Group has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Investigational Device ...

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Philips introduced CX50 xMatrix architecture designed to support advanced fluoro integration with the EchoNavigator system. It aligns TEE views with live fluoroscopy to enhance navigation in complex structural heart procedures. Transesophageal echo (TEE).
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The development of 3-D transesophageal echo (TEE) just a few years ago has enabled a new generation of interventional ...

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May 13, 2013 — Live demonstration, transmission or recording of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been ...

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May 2, 2013 — Simbionix USA Corp. released various training modules for the Angio Mentor endovascular simulator.


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May 1, 2013 — InterValve Inc. announced that it has received 510(k) clearance to market the new V8 Aortic Valvuloplasty ...

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April 17, 2013 — Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) is a better way to measure annular size in patients with ...

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April 12, 2013 — Colibri Heart Valve LLC has successfully completed the first clinical use of the company's proprietary ...

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April 12, 2013 — NeoChord has received CE mark for its technology that allows the implantation of artificial chordae ...

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April 3, 2013 — An RTI International-developed prototype catheter that can generate live, streaming 3-D ultrasound ...

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March 27, 2013 — The Heart Failure 2013 LA meeting will include a showcase of several startup companies offering ...

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Abbot MitraClip
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March 22, 2013 —  Abbott announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of ...

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Edwards Sapien, PARTNER, 3 year followup
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March 19, 2013 — The three-year results of a pivotal clinical study comparing the Edwards Sapien transcatheter heart ...

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