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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November 8, 2011 – Medtronic today announced it received CE (Conformité Européenne) mark for the CoreValve System to be ...

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November 7, 2011 – Abbott announced the company's schedule of key data presentations at the 23rd annual Transcatheter ...

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November 3, 2011Medtronic announced the first implant in a clinical trial in Japan that will evaluate the safety and ...

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November 2, 2011 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the first transcatheter aortic heart valve ...

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November 1, 2011 – Claret Medical Inc. said its Montage System has received CE mark approval as the world's first ...

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November 1, 2011 – Boston Scientific released the schedule of its major events and product-related clinical research for ...

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October 7, 2011 – ValveXchange Inc., has performed successful first-in-man (FIM) surgeries demonstrating the ...

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October 3, 2011 — JenaValve Technology GmbH, a German company specializing in the development of transcatheter heart ...

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October 3, 2011 – Cardiac Dimensions Inc. announced it received European CE mark approval for a newly enhanced version ...

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The Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Institute (CRSTI) in Dallas, Texas, created two hybrid operating ...

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The Edwards Sapien transcatheter aortic valve is pending FDA clearnance. The valve can be delivered both transfemorally (pictured here) or transapically in a hybrid OR.
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In a closely watched move – viewed as a big step toward a paradigm shift in how heart valves are repaired in the United ...

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Feature | Hybrid OR | Dave Fornell

One of the biggest trends is the creation of hybrid operating rooms (ORs) that bring together the best of both surgical ...

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September 15, 2011 – The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced the late breaking trials and first ...

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September 12, 2011 — Cardiovascular market research firm Zacks Equity Research released a new report discussing high ...

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August 30, 2011 – Results from a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2011 show that ...

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