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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Several late-breaking trials for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) were presented at the American College of ...

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TriGuard, Keystone, embolic protection, TAVR
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March 19, 2015 — An investigational device that deflects debris away from the brain during transcatheter aortic valve ...

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March 18, 2015 — New study results from The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN) show the addition of surgical ...

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Sterne Agee, ACC, Medtronic, Edwards, St. Jude, TAVR, heart failure
Feature | Gregory Chodaczek, analyst for Sterne Agee

March 17, 2015 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) hosted its 64th Annual Scientific Session & Expo over the ...

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CoreValve, high risk study, TAVR, Medtronic, ACC
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March 17, 2015 — New two-year data from the CoreValve U.S. Pivotal High Risk Study, which demonstrated superior two-year ...

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Edwards, Sapien, PARTNER trial, five-year outcomes, ACC
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March 17, 2015 — Five-year data suggest that the Sapien transcatheter heart valve (Edwards Lifesciences) is a feasible ...

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TAVR, TAVI, acc, ACC.15, corevalve
Feature | Gregory Chodaczek, analyst for Sterne Agee

Key data from many transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) clinical trials will be presented as late-breakers at ...

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March 10, 2015 — In an analysis of outcomes of about 12,000 patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve ...

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February 27, 2015 — Four-month-old Jackson Lane has a large scar that looks like a giant zipper down the center of his ...

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February 24, 2015 — In light of a recent American Heart Association report stating that U.S. mitral valve regurgitation ...

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February 23, 2015 — Pie Medical Imaging BV announced that it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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Adam Greenbaum, M.D., and William O'Neill, M.D., perform a TAVR procedure in a hybrid cath lab at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Structural heart
Feature | Lynn Tangorra
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is not only a breakthough minimally invasive medical therapy, but offers a ...
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News | Dave Fornell

As editor of DAIC, I keep a close watch on trends in cardiovascular technology and try to predict what the next big ...

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February 9, 2015 — Medtronic announced CE (Conformité Européene) mark for the 26 and 29 mm sizes of the CoreValve Evolut ...

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February 9, 2015 — A minimally invasive procedure to repair severe mitral valve regurgitation by clipping together the ...

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