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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April 18, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a draft guidance titled, “Technical Considerations for ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology | Jeff Zagoudis, Associate Editor

April 8, 2019 — Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is reportedly recovering after undergoing a transcatheter aortic ...

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April 3, 2019 – The ACC.19 late-breaking landmark Evolut Low Risk Trial compared the minimally invasive Evolut ...

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Technology | Vascular Closure Devices

April 3, 2019 — Essential Medical Inc. received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its large bore ...

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All major vendors offering advanced visualization software now offer structural heart planning. This is an example of GE Healthcare's Valve Assist software being used to determine the best location of a transseptal puncture to deliver a left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder.
Feature | Structural Heart | Jeff Zagoudis
Structural heart interventions represent one of the fastest growing segments of cardiology, as the number of devices to ...
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March 27, 2019 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to update its national coverage policy ...

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March 22, 2019 — Among patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at low surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

March 21, 2019 — Clinicians should use echocardiography when determining whether patients with heart failure and a ...

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March 14, 2019 — Beginning in mid-2019, hospitals performing transcatheter valve repair and replacement will be able to ...

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FDA Approves MitraClip for Use in Heart Failure Patients With Functional Mitral Regurgitation
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March 14, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the MitraClip heart valve repair device for ...

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March 6, 2019 — UCLA researchers have identified for the first time the origin of an immune cell that plays a critical ...

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March 1, 2019 — When it comes to treatment options for a damaged heart valve, nothing is getting more attention than tra ...

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February 18, 2019 — Foldax Inc. announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted investigative device ...

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