April 9, 2024 — UC Davis Health cardiology team members are among the first in the country to treat patients with tricus ...
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).
April 9, 2024 — Administering tranexamic acid (TxA), a drug used to reduce bleeding during heart surgery, topically ...
April 9, 2024 — People with a small aortic annulus, a part of the heart’s anatomy where the left ventricle meets the ...
April 8, 2024 — Implantation of the Impella CP micro-axial flow pump in the hours after a heart attack significantly ...
April 2, 2024 — Abbott announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the company's first-of-its ...
April 1, 2024 — Roughly 25,000 Americans die each year from valvular heart disease, but researchers from Rutgers Health ...
February 26, 2024 — Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center ...
![The DAIC team has learned of the passing of Alain Cribier, MD, FACC, heralded as the man who pioneered the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in 2002](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/Screenshot%202024-02-23%20at%2011.22.05%E2%80%AFAM.png?itok=ty2ZdUKm)
The DAIC team has learned of the passing of Alain Cribier, MD, FACC, heralded as the man who pioneered the first transca ...
February 2, 2024 — Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced the company’s EVOQUE tricuspid valve replacement system is ...
![The Smidt Heart Institute recently received CAROL Act funding to study the connection between ventricular arrhythmias-abnormal heartbeats that start in the heart’s two lower chambers-and an elevated risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with mitral valve disease](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/heart-surgery-mitral-valve-repair-cedars-sinai-2.jpg?itok=fECrglAN)
You may not know Carol Barr, but in the future, she could save your life.
Barr’s death at 39 from sudden cardiac ...
January 4, 2024 — Laguna Tech USA, a privately-held medical technology company dedicated to innovations in structural ...
January 4, 2024 — Findings from a published case series research letter by the Henry Ford Health Structural Heart ...
December 22, 2023 — TRiCares SAS (“TRiCares”), a privately held pioneer in the field of minimally invasive treatment of ...
December 18, 2023 — Death rates related to infective endocarditis declined in most adults across the U.S. within the ...
December 12, 2023 — Patients who received the anticoagulant drug warfarin after bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement h ...