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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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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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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. Owing to high mortality risk, access to open heart surgery is severely restricted and is not considered an option for most patients with TR.

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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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FDA Advisory Committee Votes in Favor of Abbott’s First-of-its-kind Triclip System to Treat People with a Leaky Tricuspid Heart Valve

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Delivered through a vein in the leg, TriClip's TEER technology works by clipping together a portion of the leaflets – or flaps of tissue – to repair the tricuspid valve and help blood flow in the right direction without the need for open-heart surgery.

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MindMics Demonstrates Its In-ear Infrasonic Earbud Technology Shows Promise in Detection of Aortic Stenosis and Hearing Heart Murmurs

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The potential to detect aortic stenosis through our IH technology is an exciting development that brings us a step closer to achieving the MindMics purpose to one day eliminate heart failure as the leading cause of death globally (similar to what glucose monitoring has done to transform diabetes)." "We