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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January 29, 2019 — Thubrikar Aortic Valve Inc. announced the first human implant of the Optimum TAV using their transcat ...

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January 29, 2019 — LivaNova PLC announced the publication of three separate studies highlighting the performance of its ...

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January 28, 2019 — Lenox Hill Hospital is the first hospital in New York City to successfully implant Abbott’s Tendyne t ...

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January 15, 2019 — Boston Scientific Corp. and Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that the companies have reached an ...

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The implantation of a MitraClip is guided under live transesophageal echo (TEE). This image shows the operator moving the open clip into position and engaging the mitral valve leaflets. The clip appears as a arrowhead shape in the ultrasound with the leaflets coming off each side. Photo from a MitraClip procedure at the University of Colorado Hospital. Dr. Dominick Wiktor. The TEE is from a Philips Epiq system.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Allen Atchley, M.D., FACC, The Chattanooga Heart Institute

Mitral regurgitation (MR) is one of the most common types of heart valve diseases in the United States, affecting ...

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News | Computed Tomography (CT)

January 8, 2019 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has released a new expert consensus document ...

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January 7, 2019 — JC Medical announced the successful treatment of the first U.S. patient with the company’s ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

John Carroll, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, director of interventional cardiology, and Robert Quaife, M.D., director of advanced ...

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January 2, 2019 — Boston Scientific Corp. exercised its option to acquire the remaining shares of Millipede Inc, a ...

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Technology | Heart Valve Technology

January 2, 2019 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that the Sapien 3 Ultra system has received U.S. Food and Drug ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

John Carroll, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, director of interventional cardiology at the Cardiac and Vascular Center at the Univers ...

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Videos | Heart Failure

Andreas Brieke, M.D., director of mechanical circulatory support, heart failure physician and site principal ...

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Boston Scientific Prevails in U.S. Edwards Lifesciences Litigation
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December 12, 2018 — A jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware determined Dec. 11 that the Boston ...

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