The GLX platform received CE Mark approval in May 2012. The GLX technology will be studied on the company’s Perimount Magna Ease Aortic Valve and will be extended to other devices.

The GLX platform received CE Mark approval in May 2012. The GLX technology will be studied on the company's Perimount Magna Ease Aortic Valve and will be extended to other devices.

Bicuspid aortic valves were also more often seen with SAVR (36% vs 12%, P =0.001). The two groups otherwise had similarly small aortic annuli, the minimal aortic annulus measuring 20-21 mm on CT ...

Surgical bioprosthetic aortic valves made with bioengineered Resilia tissue (Edwards Lifesciences) appear to suffer less structural deterioration over 8 years compared with similar devices made of ...

Investigators tested surgical valves with a Magna Ease design and the tissue of the Inspiris valve (albeit without the vFit feature that facilitates expansion for subsequent valve-in-valve ...

Demand for transcatheter heart valve devices will continue to thrive, with a documented CAGR of 13.1% during the 2015-2021 historical period of a ...

Before the introduction of Safari’s pre-shaped guidewire, physicians could only use peripheral intervention guidewires which had to be shaped by them manually for TAVI/R procedures. The Safari2 ...

The Magna valve would be the most expensive valve on the market, with a list price of around $7200. Currently, most heart valves cost between $4000 and $6000, notes the Dow Jones article.

In a previous first-in-human multicenter study, the TAVR system was tested in 168 adults with symptomatic aortic stenosis or prosthetic aortic valve degeneration (mean age, 81 years; 54% women).