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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March 14, 2011 – Expanding its transcatheter valve accessories with the addition of an aortic embolic protection ...

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March 14, 2011 – Sorin Group has reached a major milestone with the 100,000th MitroFlow Aortic Pericardial Heart ...

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March 1, 2011 – A bioprosthetic heart valve has demonstrated positive performance at 12 years, according to a ...

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February 25, 2011 – A larger transcatheter aortic heart valve has received the CE mark. The 29 mm version of the ...

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February 18, 2011 – An independent study in the journal Circulation confirmed the early and sustained clinical ...

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February 9, 2011 – The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware reaffirmed an April 2010 federal jury ...

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February 1, 2011 – A self-anchoring aortic heart valve has received the CE mark. With the approval, the Perceval S ...

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January 31, 2011 – The first successful transcatheter implantation of a 27 mm transapical aortic valve prosthesis ...

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January 19, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted conditional approval to modify the ...

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January 6, 2011 – Boston Scientific has completed its acquisition of transcatheter valve developer Sadra Medical. ...

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December 29, 2010 - Research on reducing risks, improving medical treatment and improving lifestyle behaviors to ...

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December 22, 2010 – The first implants of the Medtronic CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve were made this week ...

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The JenaValve transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) device.
Feature | By Chris S. Malaisrie, M.D. and Attapoom Susupaus, M.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute

Aortic stenosis (AS) is one of the most common valvular disorders in older adults, with a prevalence of approximately 8 ...

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December 10, 2010 – European CE mark approval has been granted so the Medtronic CoreValve transcatheter aortic ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Transcatheter valve replacement, especially transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), took center stage at ...

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