UM Ventures announced that it has granted Harpoon Medical Inc., a Stevenson-based medical device company, exclusive rights to a portfolio of technologies for cardiac valve repair developed at the ...

ATLANTA (MarketWatch) -- An Abbott Laboratories ABT, +1.96% device designed to improve a leaky heart valve without major surgery met its safety and effectiveness goals in a key study released ...

Polymer Used for Reusable Tool that Sizes Patients’ Aortic Valves. May 7, 2018. This material is tough enough to withstand the repeated sterilization used in aortic-valve repair kits.

“Some 50,000 people a year, in the U.S. alone, get mitral-valve surgery,” says Robert Howe, a professor of engineering at Harvard and a researcher on the project. “It is a pressing clinical ...

One of the most common repairs for an air compressor is when the unloader valve stops working. Fortunately, it's also a ...

Professor Jasinski commented, “The HAART 200 Aortic Annuloplasty Device is a great addition to our aortic valve repair tool kit providing a new option for the most common congenital heart defect ...

Whether transcatheter mitral-valve repair improves outcomes in patients with heart failure ... The development of the Web-based end-point assessment tool that was used in the event adjudication ...

Dr. Siddharth, usually referred to as Dr. Sidd, decided to repair and not replace Baer’s valve. He used an innovative technique called PVL closure to place a catheter in a small vein in the patient’s ...

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 Lifesciences ...