November 20, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced the first treatment of a U.S. patient in its global, multicenter ...
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).
November 16, 2012 — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an April 2010 federal jury decision that ...

Hospitals constantly try to predict what the future holds when planning new facilities and equipment purchases that will ...
November 5, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced new findings from the Medtronic CoreValve ADVANCE Study for one-year ...

November 5, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced three-year results of a pivotal clinical study of ...

November 5, 2012 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. announced that its DISCOVER CE mark trial met its primary mortality endpoint ...
November 1, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced promising data from the Engager European Pivotal Trial for the ...

October 19, 2012 — The 24th Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference, sponsored by the Cardiovascular ...
October 19, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences announced today it received approval from the United States Food and Drug ...

October 12, 2012 — Boston Scientific announced it has enrolled the first patient in the REPRISE II clinical trial to ...
September 27, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced it has received CE mark for its Medtronic CoreValve Evolut 23 mm valve ...
September 19, 2012 — Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a minimally invasive treatment for patients with ...
September 18, 2012 — Neovasc Inc. announced that acute results from preclinical studies of its Tiara valve for the ...

Cardiologists are restricting the use of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to very old or very sick ...
September 17, 2012 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced the late-breaking trials and first report ...