Gregg W. Stone, M.D., offered a preview Sept. 10 of some of the key, late-breaking clinical trials and trends in ...
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).
September 3, 2009 – Percutaneous cardiac valve maker Evalve Inc. announced treatment this week of the first group ...
September 3, 2009 – On Tuesday, Aug. 11, an 82-year old New Orleans resident with severe aortic stenosis ...
September 2, 2009 – Edwards Lifesciences Corp. said this week it completed enrollment in its 1,040-patient ...
August 13, 2009 – Data published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) indicates ...
July 23, 2009 – The FDA’s Circulatory System Devices Panel today recommended (12-0) conditional approval of a ...
July 23, 2009 – St. Jude Medical Inc. this week said it completed enrollment in its European clinical trial to ...
July 8, 2009 - Marc Gerdisch, M.D., director of cardiothoracic surgery at the St. Francis Heart Center and a ...
July 6, 2009 - ATS Medical Inc. today said the FDA cleared the first implant of the ATS Simulus Semirigid ...
June 30, 2009 – Edwards Lifesciences Corp. said today new research demonstrates that using its minimally invasive ...
June 12, 2009 - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced today that the U.K. High Court of Justice determined ...
June 8, 2009 - Patients unable to undergo open-heart surgery may be candidates for a new nonsurgical aortic valve ...
May 21, 2009 - Direct Flow Medical Inc. this week announced the first human use of its new 18 Fr. Percutaneous ...
May 21, 2009 – Edwards Lifesciences Corp. last week announced the successful completion of the first human ...
Edwards offers the PORT ACCESS EndoDirect System, which allows cardiac surgeons to stop a patient's heart and ...