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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March 29, 2012 — Non-cardiac co-morbidities such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease and ...

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The GE Healthcare ValveAssist software enables trans-aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedural planning and guidance with integration on live fluoro imaging.
Feature | Dave Fornell

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2012 Scientific Session, held March 24-27 in Chicago, was the first major ...

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March 26, 2012 – GE Healthcare unveiled two recently U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared angiography systems ...

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Transcatheter heart valves are viewed as the poster children devices representing the latest in cutting-edge cardiac ...

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March 8, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. reported March 3 it filed its official response to the Centers for Medicare ...

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March 7, 2012 — Four leading heart organizations representing cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons released initial ...

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February 20, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that it received CE mark in Europe for its Edwards Intuity ...

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February 16, 2012 — Siemens Healthcare received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for syngo Aor ...

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February 3, 2012 — Colibri Heart Valve received an notification it received patents for a new transcatheter heart valve ...

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February 3, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. issued a statement on the results of two studies evaluating the use of the Medtronic ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Based on my observations and those of the doctors on the Diagnostic & Interventional Cardiology Editorial Advisory Board ...

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With the approval of the Sapien valve in November 2011, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) technology is ...

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Feature | By Attapoom Susupaus, M.D. and S. Chris Malaisrie, M.D., Northwestern University

Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Edwards Sapien transcatheter heart valve for ...

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January 30, 2012 — Medtronic, Inc. announced the completion of patient enrollment in the extreme risk study in its ...

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January 30, 2012 - The 2012 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Chicago, March 24-26, includes five sessions ...

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