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Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical technology company headquartered in Irvine, California, specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It developed the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve made of cow tissue within a balloon-expandable, cobalt-chromium frame, deployed via catheter. [4]
St. Jude Medical was founded in 1976 to further develop bi-leaflet artificial heart valves, which were originally created in 1972 at the University of Minnesota. [4] [5] St. Jude Medical's bi-leaflet valve was developed in large part by Dr. Demetre Nicoloff of the University of Minnesota and St. Jude Medical employee Don Hanson.
In January 2016, the company acquired On-X Life Technologies and its principal product, a mechanical heart valve called the On-X aortic valve replacement, for $130 million. [ 10 ] In October 2017, Artivion acquired JOTEC AG, a German-based developer of medical devices for aortic and peripheral vascular diseases, for €225 million. [ 11 ]
(Reuters) -Abbott Laboratories said on Tuesday the U.S. FDA has approved its heart valve repair device for patients with a potentially fatal heart disease, just months after rival Edwards ...
The ATS Open Pivot Heart Valve was first sold in international markets in 1992 and subsequently granted FDA clearance to sell in the United States in 2000. To date more than 140,000 valves have been implanted worldwide. The company subsequently developed a more diversified cardiac surgery business offering several categories of products:
The tissue heart valve division of Kohler Chemine GmbH was acquired in March 2007 and expanded Terumo's operations related to vascular prostheses. [13] A year later the Japanese company Clinical Supply Co., Ltd. became a Terumo subsidiary and enhanced Terumo's interventional systems business in the field of radiotherapy. [14]
LivaNova, plc is an Italian-American medical device manufacturer based in the UK. The company develops devices used for cardiac surgery and neuromodulation.The company was formed in 2015 by a $2.7B merger between Houston, Texas-based Cyberonics, Inc. and Milan, Italy-based Sorin S.p.a. [2] The company trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol "LIVN".
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