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 10, 2009 - Frost & Sullivan bestowed its 2009 North American Technology Innovation of the Year Award on ...

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The dividing line between the jobs performed by cardiac surgeons and interventionalists will become increasing ...

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February 23, 2009 - Medtronic Inc. is acquiring CoreValve Inc., developer of a transcatheter, transfemoral aortic ...

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February 20, 2009 - MiCardia Corp. this week announced the worlds’ first dynamic adjustment of the mitral valve ...

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February 18, 2009 - The FDA has cleared a new claim for the CryoLife CryoValve SG pulmonary human heart valve ...

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February 10, 2009 - On Jan. 21, 2009, Irvin Lafferty, who suffered with severe blockage of his heart valve ...

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February 2, 2009 - Cardiac Dimensions Inc. today said it received the CE Mark approval for its CARILLON Mitral ...

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February 3, 2009 - Cerenis Therapeutics SA, a privately held pharmaceutical company developing HDL-related ...

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January 26, 2009 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. today launched the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II mitral valve repair ...

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November 11, 2008 - Today at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association in New Orleans the ...

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September 9, 2008 - CoreValve said today five clinical evaluation sites (two in New Zealand and three in Australia ...

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The PERIMOUNT Magna mitral valve was launched in ...

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September 3, 2008 - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. today said it received FDA approval for the Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT ...

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August 28, 2008 - CoreValve said today an Australia/New Zealand-focused clinical evaluation of its proprietary ...

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Preliminary results of a multicenter study show that the use of tiny clips to repair the mitral valve may someday ...

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