The findings come on the heels of the US Food and Drug Administration approving the Harmony system (Medtronic) in March as the first nonsurgical heart valve to treat pulmonary valve regurgitation in ...

Nicklaus Children's says it's the first in Florida to perform a pediatric pulmonary Ozaki — a valve rebuilt from the child's own tissue.

The FDA approved a new version of Edwards Lifesciences’ Sapien 3 transcatheter heart valve—coupling it with a self-expanding, stent-like device that helps reshape a malfunctioning pulmonary valve.

The risks of stent fracture and reintervention after transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) are substantially reduced when patients are prestented, according to combined data from three ...

Edwards Lifesciences announced the approval Monday for management of both pediatric and adult patients with severe pulmonary regurgitation on echocardiography who are candidates for surgical ...

EINDHOVEN, the Netherlands & ZURICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Xeltis, a clinical-stage company with the most advanced polymer-based restorative cardiovascular devices, today announced that it has started the ...

Device preparation for downsizing the diameter of the pulmonary trunk. We designed and developed a self-expandable stent constructed from a single 0.22-mm nitinol wire in the shape of a conduit with a ...

Medtronic's Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) was approved Friday for treatment of severe pulmonary valve regurgitation with a native or surgically repaired right ventricular outflow tract ...

This communication reports 4 cases of pulmonary-valve atresia with intact ventricular septum and hypoplastic right ventricle in which angiography demonstrated large diverticula and sinusoids that ...

Isolated pulmonary-valve endocarditis is quite rare, but it shares demographic, clinical, and microbiologic features with the more-common tricuspid endocarditis. 1 We describe a 35-year-old ...

What Is Heart Valve Disease? Heart valve disease is when one or more of your heart valves don't work the way they should. Your heart has four valves: pulmonary, tricuspid, aortic, and mitral. Your ...