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 replacement (TMVR), transcatheter and surgical valve repairs, ad surgical replacement valves.

VIDEO: How to Get Referral Patients Into a Structural Heart Program

A discussion with Ruth Fisher, MBA, vice president of the Henry Ford Hospital structural heart program, and...
360 View of the TEE Echo Workstation During a MitraClip Procedure

This 360 degree view shows staff at the University of Colorado Heart and Vascular Center...
Large-Bore Vascular Closure Device Cleared by the FDA

April 3, 2019 — Essential Medical Inc. received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its large bore Manta Vascular Closure Device.
The Essentials of Structural Heart Imaging

Structural heart interventions represent one of the fastest growing segments of cardiology, as the number of devices to address valvular and nonvalvular heart disease continues to expand rapidly...

News | Cath Lab | April 18, 2019

FDA Releases New Guidance on Medical Devices Containing Nitinol

April 18, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a draft guidance titled, “...

Videos | Cardiovascular Business | April 16, 2019

VIDEO: How to Get Referral Patients Into a Structural Heart Program

A discussion with Ruth Fisher, MBA, vice president of the...

This shows the TEE ultrasound imaging used to guide MitraClip procedures to treat functional mitral regurgitation.

360 Photos | 360 View Photos | April 12, 2019

360 View of the TEE Echo Workstation During a MitraClip Procedure

This 360 degree view shows staff at the...

News | Heart Valve Technology | April 08, 2019 | Jeff Zagoudis, Associate Editor

Mick Jagger Recovering After TAVR Procedure

April 8, 2019 — Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is reportedly recovering after undergoing a...

Evolut Low Risk Trial compared the minimally invasive Evolut transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system to the gold standard of open-heart surgery in characteristically younger, healthier aortic stenosis patients. The randomized trial, which met its primary non-inferiority endpoint of all-cause mortality or disabling stroke at two years compared to surgery (5.3 vs. 6.7 percent; posterior probability of non-inferiority >0.999), was presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2019 meeting

News | Heart Valve Technology | April 03, 2019

TAVR Performs Well Compared to Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low Risk Patients

April 3, 2019 – The ACC.19 late-breaking landmark Evolut Low Risk Trial compared the minimally invasive Evolut...

Essential Medical Inc. received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its large bore Manta Vascular Closure Device. It is designed to close large puncture sites in the femoral artery from larger sized transcatheter devices, including the Impella heart pump, endovascular stent grafts and transcatheter valves.

Technology | Vascular Closure Devices | April 03, 2019

Large-Bore Vascular Closure Device Cleared by the FDA

April 3, 2019 — Essential Medical Inc. received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its large bore...

All major vendors offering advanced visualization software now offer structural heart planning. This is an example of GE Healthcare's Valve Assist software being used to determine the best location of a transseptal puncture to deliver a left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder.

All major vendors offering advanced visualization software now offer structural heart planning. This is an example of GE Healthcare's Valve Assist software being used to determine the best location of a transseptal puncture to deliver a left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder.

Feature | Structural Heart | March 28, 2019 | Jeff Zagoudis

The Essentials of Structural Heart Imaging

Structural heart interventions represent one of the fastest growing segments of cardiology, as the number of devices...