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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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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June 23, 2014 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that three-year clinical outcomes of its Edwards Intuity valve ...

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June 20, 2014 — Less aggressive anticoagulation therapy, combined with low-dose aspirin, can be used safely in ...

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June 17, 2014  — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Edwards Sapien XT transcatheter aortic ...
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Watchman, LAA occluder that may help increase cath lab procedure volume.
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Interventional thought leaders at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2014 meeting shared their predictions about ...

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June 16, 2014 — PolyNova, a startup company that has grown out of an inter-institutional collaboration between the ...

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June 16, 2014 — Boston Scientific Corp. has initiated the RESPOND post-market registry to assess real-world performance ...

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