With the approval of the Sapien valve in November 2011, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) technology is ...
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).
Feature | By Attapoom Susupaus, M.D. and S. Chris Malaisrie, M.D., Northwestern University
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Edwards Sapien transcatheter heart valve for ...
February 01, 2012
January 30, 2012 — Medtronic, Inc. announced the completion of patient enrollment in the extreme risk study in its ...
January 30, 2012
January 30, 2012 - The 2012 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Chicago, March 24-26, includes five sessions ...
January 30, 2012
January 26, 2012 — Heart Hospital of Austin opened a heart valve clinic, the first of its kind in the region. The clinic ...
January 26, 2012
January 25, 2012 — Which Medical Device announced the winner of its Device of the Year Award 2011 in the cardiology ...
January 25, 2012
January 17, 2012 – Terumo Americas Holding Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Terumo Corp., announced it acquired Onset ...
January 17, 2012
January 4, 2012 – ECRI, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, listed ...
January 04, 2012
December 28, 2011 – Edwards Lifesciences announced two-year results of a pivotal clinical study of inoperable patients ...
December 28, 2011
December 23, 2011 - Philips Healthcare said Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, Texas, is the first hospital in the ...
December 23, 2011Each year that I attend Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), I comb the event and its sessions looking ...
December 20, 2011
Feature | Julie McLaughlin, Senior Analyst, Millennium Research Group
Transcatheter aortic valve repair (TAVR) — also commonly referred to as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) — ...
November 22, 2011
Whitepapers | Samir Kapadia, Heart and Vascular Institute Cleveland
Patient History
72-year-old, male patient with previously placed bioprosthetic mitral valve.
Diagnosis
Mitral ...
November 21, 2011
Feature | Dave Fornell
Each year that I attend Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), I comb the event and its sessions looking for ...
November 17, 2011
November 15, 2011 — A two-year study of patients in the landmark PARTNER trial confirms the one-year findings and ...
November 15, 2011