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).

This is the latest version of the MitraClip, the G4, which allows each side of the clip to be opened and closed independently to offer more flexibility when capturing the valve leaflets. The device is being used in the REPAIR MR clinical trial.

News | Heart Valve Technology

New Study Looks at MitraClip use in Moderate Surgical Risk Patients

January 13, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved clinical trial that will compare the ...

January 13, 2020

This photo is from a MitraClip procedure during the University of Colorado visit last December.

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Top 25 Cardiology Videos on DAIC in 2019

Here are the top performing 25 videos posted to the DAIC website in the past year, based on Google Analytics. These the ...

December 30, 2019

The Wyss Translational Center in Zurich, Switzerland has developed the LifeMatrix platform to engineer tissues that can be implanted in patients and will grow with them. This technology is being developed for heart valves in younger patients to eliminate the need for repeat surgeries to implant larger prosthetic heart valves as the patient grows.

News | Heart Valve Technology

Tissue Engineering Will Disrupt Cardiovascular Implant Market

While transcatheter heart valve replacement and repair devices are growing in popularity due to their delivery and ...

December 26, 2019

The most popular content in the month of November on DAIC was by far the data from the late-breaking trials from the American Herart Association (AHA) 2019 meeting. The second item on this month's list is an overview of key heart failure takeaways from AHA by Nasrien Ibrahim, M.D., associate director of resynchronization and advanced cardiac therapeutics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Photo by Scott Morgan/AHA.

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December 16, 2019 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) ...

December 17, 2019

A sample of the transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) devices in development or clinical trials.

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Developments in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement

The overwhelming success story for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) moving from a science project to ...

November 27, 2019

A key slide from the TRILUMINATE study one-year results showing the improvement in tricuspid regurgitation from basement with treatment using the transcatheter TriClip device.

News | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell, Editor

TriClip Device For Tricuspid Regurgitation Effective at One Year in TRILUMINATE Study

November 26, 2019 — The preliminary one-year results of the TRILUMINATE Pivotal Study for Abbott's TriClip device, a ...

November 26, 2019

Feature | AHA | Dave Fornell, Editor

American Heart Association 2019 Late-breaking Trials

November 19, 2019 — Here is a list of the key late-breaking clinical study presentations and links to the results at the ...

November 19, 2019

One of the cardiology technologies in the list of top advances in 2019 is Medtronic’s Tyrx Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope using to enclose cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). It reduced the risk of major infection by 40 percent, and pocket infection by 61 percent, based on data presented at ACC 2019.

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Cleveland Clinic Unveils Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2020

November 6, 2019 — Cleveland Clinic announced the Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2020 at a multimedia presentation last ...

November 06, 2019

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Edwards Sapien 3 TAVI Granted European Approval to Treat Low-risk Patients

November 6, 2019 — Edwards Lifesciences announced it received European CE mark to expand use of the Edwards Sapien 3 ...

November 06, 2019

The first all-women panel discussion on structrual heart cases was held at TCT 2019. Rebecca Hahn, M.D., foreground, was the co-organizer of the Women in Structural Heart (WISH) evening session.

Blog | Structural Heart

Women Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Structural Heart

My observation over the 13 years covering cardiology is that it is a heavily male-dominated field. This is more ...

November 04, 2019

EchoPixel showed technology at TCT 2019 that creates live holograms in the cath lab from 3-D TEE imaging. It projects the holograms on a special display screen that does not require the user to wear 3-D glasses. The interventional cardiologist can use hand movements and a foot switch to move the image around without breaking the sterile field. It offers a new way to visualize catheters, device positioning and deployment for structural heart procedures. #TCT2019 #TCT #TCT19

Feature | TCT | Dave Fornell, Editor

6 Hot Topics in Interventional Cardiology at TCT 2019

The latest in interventional cardiology clinical data and new device technologies were highlighted at the annual Transca ...

November 04, 2019

Former National Football League (NFL) player Ed White (left) needed a new aortic heart valve but decided to wait several months for the FDA to approve TACR for low-risk patients so he would not have to undergo open heart surgery. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders received two stents after he was hospitalized with chest pain was hospitalized with chest pain on Oct. 1 in Las Vegas. The event brought PCI to the forefront of national news in October.

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November 1, 2019 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) m ...

November 01, 2019

Retired National Football League (NFL) star Ed White, the former Chargers guard and four-time Pro Bowler, waited until the FDA approved TAVR for low-risk patients like himself to avoid open-heart surgery.

Feature | Heart Valve Technology

NFL Great Ed White Gets New TAVR Heart Valve at Scripps

October 29, 2019 — When Scripps cardiologists discovered early in 2019 that retired National Football League (NFL) great ...

October 29, 2019

Videos | Vascular Closure Devices

VIDEO: Use of Large Bore Vascular Closure

Ashish Pershad, M.D., chief of interventional cardiology, Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix, explains the trend ...

October 17, 2019

Videos | Structural Heart

VIDEO: Highlighting Women Involved With Structural Heart Interventions

Vivian Ng, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and an interventional cardiologist at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia ...

October 16, 2019