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Medtronic Receives CE Mark for Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement System

DAIC

6, 2025 Medtronic plc hasannounced it received CE ( Conformit Europenne ) Mark for the Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) System, a minimally invasive alternative to open-heart surgery for congenital heart disease patients with native or surgically repaired right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT).

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PECA Labs Receives Expanded CE Mark for exGraft Family of Vascular Grafts, Allowing for Expandability Designed to Match Growth or Help Avoid Restenosis

DAIC

Post-operative expansion is designed to allow for increasing graft diameter, which may enable the graft to match growth in pediatric populations or help to avoid restenosis (narrowing) in adults. Pre-operatively, the controlled dilation may help address unique anatomies. pediatric hospital centers.

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Autus Valve | The expandable artificial heart valve

Wellnest

Unfortunately, the traditional pulmonary valves have a fixed diameter that can’t match the size of the child’s heart over time. The prototype valve has two leaflets crafted from a polymer material that has a well-established history of being used as a leaflet for pediatric pulmonary valves.

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Basics of Echocardiography

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

A good knowledge of the anatomy of the heart is needed for interpretation of images from each view. The aorta, right ventricular outflow tract and pulmonary artery up to its bifurcation is imaged in the upward angulation shown in the left panel. Colour flow shows the flow in pulmonary artery.