Edwards Adds To Wide Range Of Approaches To Mitral Repair

Harpoon is a minimally invasive surgery device that complements Edwards pipeline of transcatheter mitral and septal valve repair and replacement technologies, which now includes at least six technologies at various stages of development, and is one of the company's top R&D priorities.

Less-invasive mitral valve and tricuspid valve repair is the next major for valve technology now that transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) systems, like Edwards' market-leading Sapien line, are rapidly taking market share from surgical valves, and is being pursued both by the major surgical valve companies, Edwards and Medtronic PLC as well as small start-ups like 4C Medical Technologies and MVRx, Inc. But Abbott Laboratories Inc.'s MitraClip is the only FDA-approved transcatheter mitral repair device. (Also see "Starts & Stops: Medtronic's TMVR News Closes Big Month For Trial Announcements" - Medtech Insight, 3 November, 2017.)

"We are aggressively pursuing a whole toolbox of therapies for mitral and tricuspid therapies," Edwards CEO Michael Mussallem said during...

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