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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January 8, 2013 — CardiAQValve Technologies Inc. received $37.3 million in funding in its second round of equity ...

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January 3, 2013 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) announced the publication of the SCCT Expert ...

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December 31, 2012 — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), a company focused on global medical technology market ...

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Top Cardiovascular Stories 2012 Software CT angiography Heart Valve Repair
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December 28, 2012 — The past year in cardiology has continued to see progress and innovation in medicine. As the year ...

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December 27, 2012 — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), approximately 80 percent of transcatheter aortic valve ...

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RealView's 3-D holographic projection of a heart
Feature | Dave Fornell

The annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting brings many cutting-edge technologies to the ...

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December 20, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing healthcare professionals and the public ...

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The Abbott Mitraclip device for transcatheter treatment of mitral valve regurgitation.
Feature | William Kent, M.D., MSc, Patrick McCarthy, M.D., Edwin McGee, M.D., Chris Malaisrie, M.D.

For chronic mitral valve regurgitation (MR) from degenerative disease, conventional open surgery provides a durable ...

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December 13, 2012 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the first patient implant of its 23 mm Portico transcatheter aortic ...

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Videos | Hybrid OR

Mercy Hospital in Chicago has developed a successful hybrid cath lab program where various specialties work together for ...

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November 20, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced the first treatment of a U.S. patient in its global, multicenter ...

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November 16, 2012 — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an April 2010 federal jury decision that ...

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Corindus CorPath robotic system
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Hospitals constantly try to predict what the future holds when planning new facilities and equipment purchases that will ...

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November 5, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced new findings from the Medtronic CoreValve ADVANCE Study for one-year ...

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Edwards Sapien Valve Partner Clinical Trial Heart Valve Repair
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November 5, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced three-year results of a pivotal clinical study of ...

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