In January the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a big modifcation to the CoreValve U.S. pivotal ...
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).
March 15, 2011 – A new tricuspid ring for the treatment of tricuspid valve disease is approved for use in the ...
March 15, 2011
March 14, 2011 – Expanding its transcatheter valve accessories with the addition of an aortic embolic protection ...
March 14, 2011
March 14, 2011 – Sorin Group has reached a major milestone with the 100,000th MitroFlow Aortic Pericardial Heart ...
March 14, 2011
March 1, 2011 – A bioprosthetic heart valve has demonstrated positive performance at 12 years, according to a ...
March 01, 2011
February 25, 2011 – A larger transcatheter aortic heart valve has received the CE mark. The 29 mm version of the ...
February 25, 2011
February 18, 2011 – An independent study in the journal Circulation confirmed the early and sustained clinical ...
February 18, 2011February 9, 2011 – The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware reaffirmed an April 2010 federal jury ...
February 09, 2011
February 1, 2011 – A self-anchoring aortic heart valve has received the CE mark. With the approval, the Perceval S ...
February 01, 2011
January 31, 2011 – The first successful transcatheter implantation of a 27 mm transapical aortic valve prosthesis ...
January 31, 2011
January 19, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted conditional approval to modify the ...
January 19, 2011
January 6, 2011 – Boston Scientific has completed its acquisition of transcatheter valve developer Sadra Medical. ...
January 06, 2011December 29, 2010 - Research on reducing risks, improving medical treatment and improving lifestyle behaviors to ...
December 29, 2010
December 22, 2010 – The first implants of the Medtronic CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve were made this week ...
December 21, 2010
Feature | By Chris S. Malaisrie, M.D. and Attapoom Susupaus, M.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Aortic stenosis (AS) is one of the most common valvular disorders in older adults, with a prevalence of approximately 8 ...
December 13, 2010