Medtronic announced Feb. 3 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised the CoreValve’s instructions for use ...
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 case study is from the Cardiac Imaging Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain. A woman in her early 60s came ...
January 21, 2016
At the beginning of each year, I always try to determine what the next big cardiovascular technology advances to watch ...
January 20, 2016
January 15, 2016 — Patients between the ages of 40 and 70 who undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR) may fare better ...
January 15, 2016
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell
January 15, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given its approval for an expanded indication study ...
January 15, 2016
January 14, 2016 — Cornell biomedical engineers have discovered natural triggers that could reduce the chance of life ...
January 14, 2016
December 22, 2015 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has launched a new Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)/ACC ...
December 22, 2015
December 22, 2015 — In 2015, results from the ITALIC and CvLPRIT trials, along with studies examining lifestyle factors ...
December 22, 2015
December 14, 2015 — As the field of interventional medicine grows, so do the challenges for clinicians to plan, guide ...
December 14, 2015
December 10, 2015 — Mitralign Inc. announced the first U.S. subject has been enrolled in the SCOUT Study using the ...
December 10, 2015November 23, 2015 — NaviGate Cardiac Structures Inc. (NCSI) announced that a first-in-human implant of its catheter ...
November 23, 2015
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell
(This article was updated in June 2018)
The advent of transcatheter valve repair and replacement technologies is one ...
November 12, 2015
November 10, 2015 — PinnacleHealth CardioVascular Institute enrolled the first patient in Pennsylvania in a randomized ...
November 10, 2015For the past few years, the focus of the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meetings has been on ...
November 05, 2015
Tom Watson, clinical analyst for MDBuyLine, and DAIC Editor Dave Fornell discuss some of the new cardiovascular and ...
November 05, 2015