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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]
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JenaValve Technology, Inc., developer and manufacturer of the Trilogy™ Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) System, today announced the completion of the first patient procedure for inclusion in the JENA-VAD Registry.
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.
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 ...
The Hancock Aortic Tissue Valve was invented by Warren Hancock. [4] In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Warren Hancock, an American engineer, collaborated with the medical community to develop a cutting-edge bioprosthetic heart valve. The valve was first introduced by the American company Medtronic. [1]
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]
The two important creative stages in tissue heart valves (from 1964 to 1971) took place in a short space of seven years and that since 1971 when the concept of 'man-made pericardial valves' was created, no other significant invention has occurred in this field except the use of bovine pericardium in the construction of transcatheter valves for ...
The Sorin Group was a medical products group based in Italy, with significant operations in France, the United States, and Japan, specializing in cardiac devices. [1] Its product lines include [2] replacement heart valves, oxygenators, perfusion tubing sets, cardiothoracic surgery accessories, data monitoring, heart-lung machines, autotransfusion systems, and cannulae, and a line of blood ...