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2. Abbott's heart valve repair device gets FDA advisers' backing

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   Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday backed an approval for Abbott Laboratories' heart valve repair device that is designed for patients who are at risk of complications or ...

3. Abbott's heart valve repair device gains US FDA approval - AOL

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   By Puyaan Singh (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 ...

4. US FDA staff raises no new concerns about Abbott's heart device

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   (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff reviewers did not raise any new concerns on Friday over the safety and effectiveness of Abbott's heart valve repair device designed ...

5. St. Jude Medical - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Artificial heart valve - Wikipedia

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   An artificial heart valve is a one-way valve implanted into a person's heart to replace a heart valve that is not functioning properly (valvular heart disease). Artificial heart valves can be separated into three broad classes: mechanical heart valves, bioprosthetic tissue valves and engineered tissue valves.

7. Tissue engineering of heart valves - Wikipedia

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   Tissue engineered heart valves (TEHV) offer a new and advancing proposed treatment of creating a living heart valve for people who are in need of either a full or partial heart valve replacement. Currently, there are over a quarter of a million prosthetic heart valves implanted annually, [ 1 ] and the number of patients requiring replacement ...

8. Newly Published Data Indicates St. Jude Medical Trifecta ...

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   Improved blood flow through the Trifecta heart valve leads to a significant decrease in left ventricular (LV) mass (or thickening of the heart muscle) over the course of one year. High LV mass is ...

9. MitraClip - Wikipedia

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   Compared to patients who need open heart surgery, patients who received mitral clip have less need for a blood transfusion and have fewer ventilation days. [4] When compared to the patient who has had open heart surgery, MitraClip was cheaper - approximately $2200 less per person - and the median stay in the hospital post mitral clip is 2.4 days.