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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September 4, 2014 — Medtronic announced CE mark for the 23 mm CoreValve Evolut R system for transcatheter aortic valve ...

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September 4, 2014 – For the first time in the United States, doctors at Henry Ford Hospital used a minimally invasive ...

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August 29, 2014 — Direct Flow Medical announced it received CE mark for a 23 mm valve as part of its Direct Flow Medical ...

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August 28, 2014 — The University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center is the first heart center in the nation to ...

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August 27, 2014 — Philips Healthcare announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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August 15, 2014 — Mardil Medical announced earlier this year the first-in-human implants using the VenTouch ventricular ...

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August 12, 2014 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) took action to improve access to Abbott’s MitraClip system ...

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August 5, 2014 — A survey, published online in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, of 13,860 patients who ...

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August 1, 2014 — Sorin Group received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Solo Smart Aortic ...

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July 30, 2014 — New research from Penn Medicine shows that incisionless transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) ...

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July 29, 2014 — Mary York knew the walk from the living room to the bedroom should not have been difficult for her ...

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July 18, 2014 — Boston Scientific Corp. received CE mark and began the European commercial launch of its new 25 mm Lotus ...

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July 11, 2014 — DC Devices Inc. has closed a $34 million Series D financing round. Accelmed led the round with ...

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June 24, 2014 — Researchers have announced the results of a study that used speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) to ...

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