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 15, 2007 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced last week that its subsidiary, Edwards Lifesciences PVT, Inc ...

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April 18, 2007 — Associated Press reports that on Tuesday U.S. marshals and FDA investigators began seizing heart ...

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March 22, 2007 — Evalve, Inc., a privately held medical device company, has announced the FDA has approved a ...

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March 22, 2007 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. says it has received conditional FDA approval to initiate a pivotal clinical ...

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Feb. 23, 2007 — The first patient implant was performed this week in a feasibility study evaluating the use Medtronic’s ...

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Feb. 23, 2007 — Heart device maker Edwards Lifesciences Corp. received a warning this week from the FDA about the ...

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Phase III of CoreValve’s international trial for its patented 18-French Revalving System is now one-third enrolled since ...

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CoreValve’s patented ReValving System, consisting of an 18-French delivery catheter, was used to percutaneously implant ...

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An initial review of the premarket approval application for the ATS 3f(R) Aortic Bioprosthesis Heart Valve has been ...

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CoreValve announced that its patented ReValving System, consisting of a 18F delivery catheter, was used to ...

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A test designed to measure the durability of CoreValve’s ReValving device reached 200 million cycles, the company ...

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A new procedure that delivers and places or repairs a heart valve through a catheter could soon become an ...

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