December 28, 2012 — The past year in cardiology has continued to see progress and innovation in medicine. As the year ...
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).
December 27, 2012 — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), approximately 80 percent of transcatheter aortic valve ...
December 27, 2012
Feature | Dave Fornell
The annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting brings many cutting-edge technologies to the ...
December 21, 2012December 20, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing healthcare professionals and the public ...
December 20, 2012
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 ...
December 17, 2012
December 13, 2012 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the first patient implant of its 23 mm Portico transcatheter aortic ...
December 13, 2012
Mercy Hospital in Chicago has developed a successful hybrid cath lab program where various specialties work together for ...
November 20, 2012November 20, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced the first treatment of a U.S. patient in its global, multicenter ...
November 20, 2012
November 16, 2012 — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an April 2010 federal jury decision that ...
November 16, 2012
Feature | By Dave Fornell
Hospitals constantly try to predict what the future holds when planning new facilities and equipment purchases that will ...
November 06, 2012
November 5, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced new findings from the Medtronic CoreValve ADVANCE Study for one-year ...
November 05, 2012
November 5, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced three-year results of a pivotal clinical study of ...
November 05, 2012
November 5, 2012 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. announced that its DISCOVER CE mark trial met its primary mortality endpoint ...
November 05, 2012
November 1, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced promising data from the Engager European Pivotal Trial for the ...
November 01, 2012
October 19, 2012 — The 24th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, sponsored by the Cardiovascular ...
October 19, 2012