March 16, 2010 — Several new initiatives in a robust international clinical program for a transcatheter aortic ...
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).
March 14, 2010 — Late-breaking data presented at the American College of Cardiology's 59th annual scientific ...

The FDA’s approval of the Melody valve is widely viewed as a positive sign that may help other transcatheter ...

The FDA recently gave market clearance for Medtronic’s Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve, the first ...
March 2, 2010 — A new transcatheter valve and delivery systems has received European market clearance.
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March 2, 2010 — A surgical valve has earned the European market clearance nod, marking the manufacturer's launch ...
February 11, 2010 — An appeals court in Germany found the CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve system does not ...
Jan. 25, 2010 — The first commercial implants of the ATS 3f Enable Aortic Bioprosthesis were recently performed ...
January 25, 2010 - In a significant development in treating congenital heart disease, the Medtronic Melody ...
January 25, 2010 – First-in-man procedures and a feasibility study in Europe were recently initiated for a new ...
January 21, 2010 – The Federal Patent Court in Munich, Germany upheld the validity of Edward Lifesciences' patent ...
January 19, 2010 – A new simulator released today provides physicians with an opportunity to practice ...
January 13, 2010 – Transcatheter heart valve development company CardiAQ Valve Technologies (CVT) closed a $6.5 ...
January 5, 2010 – St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada recently was the first to use the Embrella Embolic ...

In recent years, the U.S. cardiac device market has focused on dynamics in the drug-eluting stent (DES) segment – ...