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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Cardiologists are restricting the use of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to very old or very sick ...

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September 17, 2012 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced the late-breaking trials and first report ...

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Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology Editor Dave Fornell shares his choices of the latest advances in cardiac ...

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Sept. 4, 2012 — Medtronic has reached two clinical program milestones for its CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve ...

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TAVR, EVAR Vascular Closure Device May Eliminate Need for Surgical Cut-Down
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Due to the increasing number of transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVR) and endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) ...

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FFR-CT imaging developed by HeartFlow offers coronary flow data noninvasively. Clinical data so far shows close correlation with invasive catheter-based FFR measurements. The technology helps pinpoint ischemic culprit lesions and determine the severity of coronary stenosis.
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Trends and new technology for cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) were highlighted during the 2012 Society of ...

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July 23, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced the first patient enrollment in a global, multicenter, randomized clinical ...

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July 16, 2012 — Cardiosolutions Inc., an early-stage company focused on the development of an innovative percutaneous ...

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June 20, 2012 — Echocardiography is playing a key role in both the assessment and guidance of transcatheter aortic valve ...

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June 15, 2012 — Cardiosolutions Inc. announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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June 15, 2012 — CardiAQ Valve Technologies (CardiAQ), which has developed the world’s first self-conforming and self ...

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June 14, 2012 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted in favor of recommending expanding the ...

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June 4, 2012 — MitrAssist Medical Ltd., a developer of minimally invasive products for treating heart disease, announced ...

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Siemens' syngo Aortic ValveGuide software enables transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedural guidance with ...

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May 23, 2012 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that data from its post-approval study involving 94 European centers ...

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