The pulmonary valve is located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery. The valve acts as a doorway that lets blood into and out of the heart. Pulmonary valve stenosis is when the ...

The FDA gave the greenlight to transcatheter pulmonic valve replacement with the Sapien 3 system plus an adaptive pre-stent landing zone, dubbed Alterra, for patients with congenital heart disease.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A transcatheter pulmonary valve for use in patients with dysfunctional right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) conduits has shown a high rate of procedural success and encouraging short-term function, ...

WILMINGTON, DE / ACCESSWIRE / March 28, 2023 / Transparency Market Research Inc. - The pulmonary valve replacement market was valued at USD 1.0 Bn in 2022 and is projected to surpass USD 1.6 Bn by ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...