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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May 4, 2011 -- Two new clinical studies will use the Carillon Mitral Contour System, an investigational device for ...

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Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and conventional surgery in ...

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April 22, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Trifecta valve, by St. Jude Medical ...

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April 11, 2011 — The following is a roundup of key news and trial data that came out of the American College of ...

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The transcatheter MitraClip mitral valve repair system continues to compare favorably with conventional open-heart ...

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April 6, 2011 – Data from the EVEREST II study show that patients with significant mitral regurgitation (MR) ...

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April 6, 2011 – Development of a novel embolic protection device designed for use during transcatheter aortic ...

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April 5, 2011 – Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and ...

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April 4, 2011 – A new system for treating mitral regurgitation (MR) has been launched in Australia. The MitraClip ...

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March 29, 2011 – One-year outcomes from Cohort A of the PARTNER trial will be presented April 3 at the American ...

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In January the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a big modifcation to the CoreValve U.S. pivotal ...

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March 15, 2011 – A new tricuspid ring for the treatment of tricuspid valve disease is approved for use in the ...

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March 14, 2011 – Expanding its transcatheter valve accessories with the addition of an aortic embolic protection ...

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March 14, 2011 – Sorin Group has reached a major milestone with the 100,000th MitroFlow Aortic Pericardial Heart ...

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March 1, 2011 – A bioprosthetic heart valve has demonstrated positive performance at 12 years, according to a ...

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