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 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
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Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is not only a breakthough minimally invasive medical therapy, but offers a ...
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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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January 28, 2015 — Neovasc Inc. has commenced a public offering in the United States of 8 million shares of the company ...

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January 28, 2015 — Maquet Medical Systems USA announced an agreement to serve as the exclusive U.S. distributor of ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of Medtronic’s premarket approval application (PMA) for ...

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January 26, 2015 — FEops announced the closing of a €1.3 million (~$1.9 million USD) series A financing round, led by ...

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The America College of Cardiology has released its list of key late-breaking clinical trials at the ACC 2015 meeting in ...

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January 20, 2015 — There could soon be new hope for those facing one of humanity's biggest health issues, thanks to ...

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January 19, 2015 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. announced the closing of a new round of financing for the company totaling ...

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