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Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center Providing State-of-the-Art Medtronic APOLLO Clinical Trial Treating Heart Valve Disease

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The Intrepid TMVR is a heart valve that is designed to help alleviate mitral regurgitation so that blood can flow through the heart in the intended direction,” said Matthew Saybolt , M.D., FACC, principal site investigator and medical director, Structural Heart Disease Program, Jersey Shore University Medical Center.

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Henry Ford Health Heart Failure Patient First in Michigan to Receive Breakthrough Device

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Henry Ford Health's Center for Structural Heart Disease team delivered its first in Michigan FDA-approved VOQUE Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement System to a heart failure patient on February 13, 2024 at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. However, only about 8,000 tricuspid valve surgeries are performed annually.

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New Drug Fails to Improve Diabetes-Related Heart Failure

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Decline in exercise ability is a hallmark of progression to overt heart failure. These results also speak to the importance of continuing to focus on earlier recognition of heart failure risk in patients with diabetes and on initiating treatment before the condition has progressed to overt heart failure.”

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Abbott Announces FDA Approval of First-of-its-kind Device to Repair Leaky Tricuspid Heart Valve, TriClip

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its TriClip, a first-of-its-kind device to repair leaky tricuspid heart valve, for which more than 1.6 TR occurs when the valve doesn't close properly, causing a leak and allowing blood to flow backward in the heart. Abbott has announced U.S million people in the U.S.

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A Look at February's Top 10

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Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, Named President of the Heart Valve Society 2. Henry Ford Health Heart Failure Patient First in Michigan to Receive Breakthrough Device 6. Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute is First in Minnesota to Implant Barostim Therapy to Improve Symptoms of Heart Failure 7.

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TRiCares Announces Successful Implantation of Minimally Invasive Topaz Tricuspid Heart Valve Replacement System in Patient with a Pacemaker

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Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a common and serious disease for which open heart surgery and symptomatic pharmacologic treatment are the current standard treatment options. To date, a total of 24 Topaz implantations have been performed across Europe and Canada.

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What are Artificial Heart Valves ?

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Artificial Heart Valves Who needs artificial heart valves? The 4 heart valves work continuously to keep blood flowing to the lungs and to the body. Sometimes, disease may damage the heart valves so that they function poorly or stop working completely. When damaged valves can no longer [.]