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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December 11, 2014 — Medtronic, Inc. announced it has initiated the PERIGON (PERIcardial SurGical AOrtic Valve ...

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December 5, 2014 – An estimated quarter of a million of older adults are diagnosed with aortic valve stenosis each year ...

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December 4, 2014 – Results from a new study indicate that the addition of mitral valve (MV) repair to coronary artery ...

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Routinely adding mitral valve repair to coronary artery bypass graft surgery for heart attack patients may not be ...

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Nov. 12, 2014 — Catalist-listed QT Vascular Ltd. has acquired a novel technology platform called Java, and all ...

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Nov. 7, 2014 — Sorin Group, a global medical device company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases ...

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By Dave Fornell, editor of DAIC Magazine

The key take away messages from the 26th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular ...

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Oct. 27, 2014 — El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., became one of the first hospitals in California to adopt a ...

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October 27, 2014 – Annie Henderson, 69, suffers from multiple chronic ailments, including kidney failure and mitral ...

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October 23, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Freedom Solo and Solo Smart stentless heart ...

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Oct. 22, 2014 — Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons became the first in Texas to implant the Solo Smart Aortic ...

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Siemens introduces True volume transesophageal echo (TEE) transducer — this 3-D/4-D 90°x90° TEE solution enables ...

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October 16, 2014 - Neovasc Inc. has received conditional Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the U.S ...

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October 10, 2014—Mitralign Inc. reported on the successful use of its technology to perform a percutaneous repair on a ...

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October 10, 2014 ­­­­– Direct Flow Medical Inc. has received the CE Mark for an enhanced transfemoral delivery system ...

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