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Several Transcatheter Valves are Pending FDA Clearance
The FDA’s approval of the Melody valve is widely viewed as a positive sign that may help other transcatheter valves to follow. “This is really a bellwether in terms...
Read More March 10, 2010
Opening the Door to Transcatheter Valves
The FDA recently gave market clearance for Medtronic’s Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve, the first transcatheter valve approved in the United States. The cardiology...
Read More March 10, 2010
The Cardiac Device Market Outlook for 2010
In recent years, the U.S. cardiac device market has focused on dynamics in the drug-eluting stent (DES) segment – including events ranging from the 2006 BASKET-LATE trial...
Read More November 18, 2009
Abbott to Acquire Evalve, a Leader in Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
September 11, 2009 – Abbott said yesterday it reached an $410 million agreement to purchase Evalve Inc., the global leader in the development of devices for minimally...
Read More September 11, 2009
Gregg Stone Highlights Trends, Key Trial Data at TCT 2009
Gregg W. Stone, M.D., offered a preview Sept. 10 of some of the key, late-breaking clinical trials and trends in interventional cardiology that will be presented during...
Read More September 10, 2009
New Transcatheter Tools Change How Structural Heart Issues Are Treated
The dividing line between the jobs performed by cardiac surgeons and interventionalists will become increasing blurred in the near future as transcatheter heart valves and...
Read More March 9, 2009
Getting the Edge on Mitral Valve Repair
Preliminary results of a multicenter study show that the use of tiny clips to repair the mitral valve may someday eliminate the need for open-heart surgery for most...
Read More July 10, 2008
Web Exclusive: SCAI to Deliver New Valve Therapy Data at SCAI-ACCi2
The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has partnered with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to co-locate its 33rd annual meeting with...
Read More March 17, 2008