June 21, 2011 – The St. Francis Heart Center in Indianapolis, Ind. announced that it has performed the first post-U.S ...
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).
June 21, 2011
June 14, 2011 – The first successful Chinese implants of the Edwards SAPIEN XT valve were performed in May.
The ...
June 14, 2011
June 10, 2011 - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel is scheduled to review Edwards Lifesciences’ ...
June 10, 2011
May 23, 2011 - A presentation about transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) at EuroPCR 2011 confirmed positive ...
May 23, 2011
May 20, 2011 - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced that clinicians continued to achieve successful one-year ...
May 20, 2011
May 19, 2011 – New clinical data presented today at EuroPCR 2011 demonstrate immediate and long-term health-related ...
May 19, 2011
May 9, 2011 — John Webb, M.D., FSCAI, has traveled the globe teaching fellow physicians how to repair or replace faulty ...
May 09, 2011
May 4, 2011 -- Two new clinical studies will use the Carillon Mitral Contour System, an investigational device for ...
May 09, 2011
Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and conventional surgery in ...
April 28, 2011
April 22, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Trifecta valve, by St. Jude Medical ...
April 22, 2011
Feature | Dave Fornell
April 11, 2011 — The following is a roundup of key news and trial data that came out of the American College of ...
April 11, 2011
The transcatheter MitraClip mitral valve repair system continues to compare favorably with conventional open-heart ...
April 08, 2011
April 6, 2011 – Data from the EVEREST II study show that patients with significant mitral regurgitation (MR) ...
April 06, 2011
April 6, 2011 – Development of a novel embolic protection device designed for use during transcatheter aortic ...
April 06, 2011
April 5, 2011 – Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and ...
April 05, 2011