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). 

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February 9, 2016 — Valtech Cardio Ltd. announced that it has received German Neue Untersuchungs und Behandlungsmethoden ...

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News | ACC

The following are the late-breaking clinical trial presentations presented at the 2016 American College of Cardiology ...

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transcatheter repair of a mitral valve paravalvular leak. Transcatheter repair of a surgical mitral replacement paravalvular leak with an Amplatzer Vascular Plug II.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell

Off-label use of the St. Jude Amplatzer vascular plug devices offers a new solution for the minimally invasive repair of ...

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Medtronic announced Feb. 3 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised the CoreValve’s instructions for use ...

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Case Study | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

This case study is from the Cardiac Imaging Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain. A woman in her early 60s came ...

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At the beginning of each year, I always try to determine what the next big cardiovascular technology advances to watch ...

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January 15, 2016 — Patients between the ages of 40 and 70 who undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR) may fare better ...

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Sapien III, Sapien 3, PARTNER III
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January 15, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given its approval for an expanded indication study ...

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News | Congenital Heart

January 14, 2016 — Cornell biomedical engineers have discovered natural triggers that could reduce the chance of life ...

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Technology | Clinical Decision Support

December 22, 2015 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has launched a new Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)/ACC ...

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December 22, 2015 — In 2015, results from the ITALIC and CvLPRIT trials, along with studies examining lifestyle factors ...

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Technology | Cath Lab Navigation Aids

December 14, 2015 — As the field of interventional medicine grows, so do the challenges for clinicians to plan, guide ...

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December 10, 2015 — Mitralign Inc. announced the first U.S. subject has been enrolled in the SCOUT Study using the ...

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November 23, 2015 — NaviGate Cardiac Structures Inc. (NCSI) announced that a first-in-human implant of its catheter ...

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Neovasc, Tiara, transcatheter mitral valve, TMVR
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(This article was updated in June 2018)


The advent of transcatheter valve repair and replacement technologies is one ...

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