Artificial Heart Valve for Children Can be Expanded to Grow Along with the Patient Feb. 25, 2020 This heart valve could eliminate follow-on surgeries to implant ever-larger valves to keep up with ...

Current artificial heart valves are fixed in size, meaning children need to get larger ones as they grow. Children who receive their first artificial valve before age 2 will require up to five ...

A U.S. appeals court on Friday overturned a jury's verdict that medical device maker Medtronic owes competitor Colibri $106.5 ...

An artificial heart valve that grows with the child could eliminate these risks. Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The latest prototype from the team is built from a biocompatible ...

Breakthrough design vastly improves mechanical heart valve A twist on the decade's-old design improves blood flow, prevents clots Date: January 26, 2021 ...

The Federal Circuit overturned a $106 Million verdict against Medtronic, ruling that Colibri was barred from claiming patent infringement.

Artificial heart valves are the standard of care for children born with congenital heart disease, but need to be replaced after about 10 years, requiring children to undergo multiple open-heart ...

Mechanical heart valves may be safer in certain cases than valves made of animal tissue and should be used more in heart-valve replacements, especially in younger patients, according to a study by ...

ABOVE: The heart valve replacement developed by Tranquillo and colleagues SYEDAIN, ET AL., TRANQUILLO LAB, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. A new type of artificial heart valve transplanted into lambs ...

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Mechanical heart valve prosthesis superior to biological. Karolinska Institutet. Journal European Heart Journal Funder and others, Swedish Society of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet's Foundations ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first artificial heart valve that can replace an aortic heart valve damaged by senile aortic valve stenosis without open-heart surgery. Senile ...