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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February 13, 2013 — St. Jude Medical Inc announced the first patient implant of its 25 mm Portico Transcatheter Aortic ...

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bundled payments, cardiology, CMS
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February 6, 2013 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that more than 500 organizations will ...

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Direct Flow Medical Transcatheter Aortic Valve System CE mark
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February 1, 2013 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. has received CE mark for its distinctive transcatheter aortic heart valve ...

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Top stories of 2012 in cardiology
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To help identify trends and find out what DAIC readers are interested in, the magazine takes note of what they click on ...

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January 21, 2013 — A heart valve procedure intended to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis and individuals who ...

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January 16, 2013 — Open heart surgery may be a dying art, as new valve replacement techniques offer life-changing ...

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January 16, 2013 — CardioLogical Solutions, a new cardiovascular device company, announced it has initiated operations ...

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January 8, 2013 — CardiAQValve Technologies Inc. received $37.3 million in funding in its second round of equity ...

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January 3, 2013 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) announced the publication of the SCCT Expert ...

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December 31, 2012 — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), a company focused on global medical technology market ...

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Top Cardiovascular Stories 2012 Software CT angiography Heart Valve Repair
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December 28, 2012 — The past year in cardiology has continued to see progress and innovation in medicine. As the year ...

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December 27, 2012 — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), approximately 80 percent of transcatheter aortic valve ...

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RealView's 3-D holographic projection of a heart
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The annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting brings many cutting-edge technologies to the ...

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December 20, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing healthcare professionals and the public ...

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The Abbott Mitraclip device for transcatheter treatment of mitral valve regurgitation.
Feature | William Kent, M.D., MSc, Patrick McCarthy, M.D., Edwin McGee, M.D., Chris Malaisrie, M.D.

For chronic mitral valve regurgitation (MR) from degenerative disease, conventional open surgery provides a durable ...

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