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 11, 2018 — A new study looked at the effectiveness of a novel risk tool to predict 30-day readmission rates in ...

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May 11, 2018 — Medtronic plc announced two-year outcomes for the Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) from its ea ...

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May 11, 2018 — The post-approval study evaluating the safety and efficacy of MitraClip in a real-world, commercial ...

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An 3D echo view of a Neovasc Tiara transcatheter mitral valve. This valve is currently in clinical trials and is ahead of most of the TMVR devices in development.
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May 4, 2018 — Transcatheter valve technology has been advancing very quickly and the links to aggregated content from ...

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May 1, 2018 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp.announced that it received CE Mark for the Edwards Cardioband Tricuspid Valve ...

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April 26, 2018 — The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked Edward Lifesciences’ Corp.’s European patent EP 2,399,550 ...

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A CT scan assessment of the femoral access route challenges for a recent Central DuPage Hospital TAVR candidate. This image and the measurements were discussed by the heart team during its weekly meeting to determine if the TAVR delivery catheters could navigate the disease femoral artery and what options might best serve this patient.
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While there is fear by many about the trend of hospitals consolidating into larger healthcare systems, one advantage ...

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A transcaval access TAVR procedure, showing a guide wire in the vena cava and a snare located in the aorta to pull the guide wire through.
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Patient selection for who is best suited for a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure is partly based ...

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Northwestern Medicine has purchased several smaller Chicago suburban hospitals in the past few years to expand its ...

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April 6, 2018 —  University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute has officially opened the APOLLO trial ...

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Here is the list of the most popular articles and videos on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine ...

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March 30, 2018 — LivaNova PLC announced the first patient enrollment in the Perceval Valve Clinical study for Chinese ...

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March 27, 2018 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that enrollment is complete in the computed tomography (CT) imagin ...

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Insights from the STS/ACC TVT Transcatheter Valve Registry, presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2018 ...

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