March 21, 2019 — Clinicians should use echocardiography when determining whether patients with heart failure and a ...
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).
March 14, 2019 — Beginning in mid-2019, hospitals performing transcatheter valve repair and replacement will be able to ...
![FDA Approves MitraClip for Use in Heart Failure Patients With Functional Mitral Regurgitation](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/MitraClipDevicefromAbbottPR.jpg?itok=h2-AiB56)
March 14, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the MitraClip heart valve repair device for ...
March 7, 2019 — Rising incidence of congenital heart disease and increasing awareness of transcatheter pulmonary valve ...
March 6, 2019 — UCLA researchers have identified for the first time the origin of an immune cell that plays a critical ...
March 1, 2019 — When it comes to treatment options for a damaged heart valve, nothing is getting more attention than tra ...
February 18, 2019 — Foldax Inc. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted investigative device ...
January 29, 2019 — Thubrikar Aortic Valve Inc. announced the first human implant of the Optimum TAV using their transcat ...
January 29, 2019 — LivaNova PLC announced the publication of three separate studies highlighting the performance of its ...
January 28, 2019 — Lenox Hill Hospital is the first hospital in New York City to successfully implant Abbott’s Tendyne t ...
Joe Cleveland, M.D., professor of cardiothoracic surgery, at the University of Colorado Hospital, offers a cardiac ...
January 15, 2019 — Boston Scientific Corp. and Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that the companies have reached an ...
![The implantation of a MitraClip is guided under live transesophageal echo (TEE). This image shows the operator moving the open clip into position and engaging the mitral valve leaflets. The clip appears as a arrowhead shape in the ultrasound with the leaflets coming off each side. Photo from a MitraClip procedure at the University of Colorado Hospital. Dr. Dominick Wiktor. The TEE is from a Philips Epiq system.](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_large/public/field/image/MitraClip_TEE_of_deployment_LO_RES_UofColo_Staff_DF.jpg?itok=GkAShqcR)
Mitral regurgitation (MR) is one of the most common types of heart valve diseases in the United States, affecting ...
Robert Quaife, M.D., director of advanced cardiac imaging, University of Colorado Hospital, explains why advanced ...
January 8, 2019 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released a new expert consensus document ...