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 30, 2011 – Results from a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2011 show that ...

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August 30, 2011 – Single center data of the German Heart Centre in Munich demonstrate a sustained improvement of ...

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August 29, 2011 — An observational study demonstrates the percutaneous catheter-based MitraClip treatment improves ...

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August 19, 2011 - Neovasc Inc. accomplished $4.7 million in financing to complete the COSIRA clinical trial for the ...

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August 8, 2011 – Edwards Lifesciences announced the global launch of the Carpentier-Edwards Physio Tricuspid ...

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July 21, 2011 – In a closely watched move viewed as a big step toward a paradigm shift in how heart valves are repaired ...

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As part of its efforts to expand integration of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) image guidance with cath lab treatment ...

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If approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later this summer, transcatheter valve therapy (TVT) – an ...

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June 21, 2011 – The Heart Hospital of Austin, a physician-led hospital specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of ...

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June 21, 2011 – The St. Francis Heart Center in Indianapolis, Ind. announced that it has performed the first post-U.S ...

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June 14, 2011 – The first successful Chinese implants of the Edwards SAPIEN XT valve were performed in May.

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June 10, 2011 - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel is scheduled to review Edwards Lifesciences’ ...

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May 23, 2011 - A presentation about transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) at EuroPCR 2011 confirmed positive ...

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May 20, 2011 - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced that clinicians continued to achieve successful one-year ...

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May 19, 2011 – New clinical data presented today at EuroPCR 2011 demonstrate immediate and long-term health-related ...

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