December 29, 2010 - Research on reducing risks, improving medical treatment and improving lifestyle behaviors to ...
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).
December 29, 2010
December 22, 2010 – The first implants of the Medtronic CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve were made this week ...
December 21, 2010
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 ...
December 13, 2010
December 10, 2010 – European CE mark approval has been granted so the Medtronic CoreValve transcatheter aortic ...
December 10, 2010
Feature | Dave Fornell
Transcatheter valve replacement, especially transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), took center stage at ...
December 06, 2010November 23, 2010 – Boston Scientific will acquire Sadra Medical, a development-stage company in Los Gatos, Calif ...
November 23, 2010
November 16, 2010 – Analysis of data from the PARTNER trial showed that patients implanted with transcatheter ...
November 16, 2010
November 3, 2010 – A multicenter CE-mark study has been launched for transapical TAVI system. Hendrik Treede, M.D ...
November 03, 2010
October 15, 2010 – An investigational trial of Medtronic’s CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve has been approved ...
October 15, 2010
October 5, 2010 – Edwards Lifesciences has opened a new 300,000-square-foot facility in Draper, Utah, allowing the ...
October 05, 2010September 29, 2010 – Physicians from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute will lead a clinical trial evaluating ...
September 29, 2010
Feature | Dave Fornell
Transcatheter valve therapies were among the hottest topics at the 2010 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics ...
September 29, 2010
September 24, 2010 - The New England Journal of Medicine has published the results of from a trial looking at the ...
September 24, 2010
September 23, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conditionally approved the first part of a ...
September 23, 2010September 23, 2010 - The first-in-human procedure to use ultrasound therapy to treat mitral regurgitation (MR) has ...
September 23, 2010