Edwards' Sapien XT transcatheter aortic heart valve (Courtesy Edwards Lifesciences) Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, CA) has announced both the FDA approval and the U.S. launch of its next-generation Sapien XT transcatheter aortic ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, heart valve
Edwards Lifesciences announced that the injunction imposed by the District Court of Mannheim, Germany against the sales of Medtronic's transcatheter heart valves has become effective. In July 2013, the court ruled that Medtronic's ...
Tags: Heart Valves, Medicine
Edwards Lifesciences has obtained the reimbursement for its Sapien XT transcatheter aortic valve implant from Japan's Central Social Insurance Medical Council (Chuikyo) after the recommendation made by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor ...
Tags: XT Valve, Edwards Lifesciences
Helio System (TF-FA), an investigational equipment developed for use with the Sapien XT Transcatheter Heart Valve, has been deployed successfully in four patients during a feasibility trial of its use in patients with high-risk aortic ...
Tags: Aortic Insufficiency, Medicine