Edwards Lifesciences Corporation today announced the company's EVOQUE tricuspid valve replacement system has received Health ...

The transcatheter heart valve replacement (TAVR) market is reported to reach a valuation of at USD 8.18 billion in 2025 to USD 32.82 billion by 2035. Demand for TAVR is expected to rise at a CAGR of ...

Dr. Mohammadi explains that current options for aortic valve replacement include having a new heart valve—either mechanical or valves made with natural materials such as bovine or porcine ...

Doctors at Children's National Hospital performed Preston's surgery. An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor ...

As it aims to broaden the reach of its replacement heart valves among younger patients, Edwards Lifesciences has put forward new clinical data showing its bioprosthetics can maintain thei | As it ...

Ben McCullough, right, is greeted by Juliena Heng, one of the team members who constructed the EVOQUE replacement heart valve that saved his life, during a surprise reunion at Edwards Lifesciences ...

Bovine valves are recovered from cows and porcine valves come from pigs. The valve may be an actual valve recovered from a donor or is manufactured from donor tissue such as the pericardium, the sac ...

About 13,000 heart valve replacement operations are performed in England each year and 300,000 worldwide, a number set to rise as heart disease rates climb. By 2050, 850,000 replacements a year ...

Some valves are made from specially treated tissue from the heart of a pig, a cow, or a person. These may only last 10 to 15 years. Other valves are synthetic.