The global prosthetic heart valves market is expected to expand rapidly as the frequency of heart valve disease rises and regulatory requirements for innovative and sophisticated prosthetic heart ...

Prosthetic heart valves (PHVs) are used to replace diseased native valves among patients with valvular stenosis, incompetence, or both. This paper reviews a number of contemporary prosthetic heart ...

Patients with failure of a surgical aortic bioprosthesis—which frequently occurs 10 to 15 years after surgery—fare worse after a transcatheter valve-in-valve (ViV) fix if the original valve ...

A xenograft bioprosthetic heart valve replaces a damaged valve in your heart. It’s made from tissue sourced from animals such as pigs or cows. Xenograft bioprosthetic heart valves are a treatment ...

For some children born with congenital heart disease, prosthetic valves that maintain a healthy flow of blood are a harsh reality of their young lives. This not only requires open heart surgery to ...

Sarasota, FL, May 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zion Market Research has published a new report titled “Prosthetic Heart Valve Market by Type (Transcatheter, Tissue and Mechanical): Global Industry ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Edwards Lifesciences' SAPIEN 3 platform, a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) therapy, for patients with severe aortic stenosis without ...

Taking a step towards a major goal in heart valve prosthetics, scientists have created an adaptable heart valve replacement that can be expanded over time as the heart grows. The artificial valve ...

WILMINGTON, Del., USA, and MUNICH, JenaValve Technology, Inc., a medical device company specializing in developing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) systems, announced today a significant ...

Geriatrics and Aging. 2006;9(10):691-696. The following sections present information about the most commonly implanted (contemporary) mechanical and bioprosthetic heart valves. The intent is to ...