Heart valves keep blood flowing in the right direction between the heart's four chambers. Mechanical valves last longer than bioprosthetic valves but require lifelong blood thinners. Most of the time, ...

Edwards Lifesciences’ SAPIEN M3 Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement System. Credit: Edwards Lifesciences/Business Wire. Edwards Lifesciences has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Edwards Lifesciences has claimed an FDA approval for its Sapien M3 transcatheter mitral valve replacement system—marking the agency’s first in this type of implant that takes a potentially safer route ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transseptal mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients unsuitable for surgery or transcatheter ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin physicians are trying new ways to treat chronic heart conditions. Five cardiologists at Heart Hospital of Austin are the first in the nation to administer a valve replacement ...

The first heart valve implanted in a patient using a new robotically assisted approach to valve replacement has been completed at the Cleveland Clinic. The Perceval Plus artificial aortic valve, ...

In a surgical first, doctors have replaced a heart valve through a small neck incision using robotic assistance, avoiding the need to open the chest. The pioneering procedure, performed at the ...

Abbott’s MitraClip implant just got a new sibling. The FDA has approved the company’s Tendyne system, as a minimally invasive heart replacement for patients with mitral valve disease that would ...

St. Luke’s University Health Network said its Heart and Vascular team recently became the first in the region to perform a transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement using the new Edwards Lifesciences ...