March 7, 2012 — Four leading heart organizations representing cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons released initial ...
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).
February 20, 2012 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that it received CE mark in Europe for its Edwards Intuity ...
February 16, 2012 — Siemens Healthcare received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for syngo Aor ...
February 3, 2012 — Colibri Heart Valve received an notification it received patents for a new transcatheter heart valve ...
February 3, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. issued a statement on the results of two studies evaluating the use of the Medtronic ...
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Based on my observations and those of the doctors on the Diagnostic & Interventional Cardiology Editorial Advisory Board ...
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With the approval of the Sapien valve in November 2011, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) technology is ...
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Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Edwards Sapien transcatheter heart valve for ...
January 30, 2012 — Medtronic, Inc. announced the completion of patient enrollment in the extreme risk study in its ...
January 30, 2012 - The 2012 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Chicago, March 24-26, includes five sessions ...
January 26, 2012 — Heart Hospital of Austin opened a heart valve clinic, the first of its kind in the region. The clinic ...
January 25, 2012 — Which Medical Device announced the winner of its Device of the Year Award 2011 in the cardiology ...
January 17, 2012 – Terumo Americas Holding Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Terumo Corp., announced it acquired Onset ...
January 4, 2012 – ECRI, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, listed ...
December 28, 2011 – Edwards Lifesciences announced two-year results of a pivotal clinical study of inoperable patients ...