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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May 20, 2010 – An aortic embolic protection device, which acts as a protective shield to reduce the incidence of ...

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May 10, 2010 – A catheter-based procedure is providing relief to patients who suffer from shortness of breath and ...

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April 2, 2010 – A federal jury yesterday found Medtronic’s CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve willfully ...

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March 29, 2010 – A lawsuit was settled between Medtronic and AGA Medical Corp. for the alleged infringement of ...

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March 16, 2010 — Several new initiatives in a robust international clinical program for a transcatheter aortic ...

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March 14, 2010 — Late-breaking data presented at the American College of Cardiology's 59th annual scientific ...

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

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The FDA recently gave market clearance for Medtronic’s Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve, the first ...

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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 ...

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February 11, 2010 — An appeals court in Germany found the CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve system does not ...

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Jan. 25, 2010 —  The first commercial implants of the ATS 3f Enable Aortic Bioprosthesis were recently performed ...

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January 25, 2010 - In a significant development in treating congenital heart disease, the Medtronic Melody ...

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January 25, 2010 – First-in-man procedures and a feasibility study in Europe were recently initiated for a new ...

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January 21, 2010 – The Federal Patent Court in Munich, Germany upheld the validity of Edward Lifesciences' patent ...

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