TCT 2019: Abbott’s Portico TAVR Crosses Non-Inferiority Threshold

Abbott’s Portico transcatheter aortic valve performed well enough to meet the statistical criteria for non-inferiority to surgery in the PORTICO IDE trial. The company will likely look to its next-generation of Portico for more impressive results.

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One-year outcomes from the 750-patient, randomized PORTICO IDE trial show Abbott Laboratories Inc.’s Portico TAVR system is non-inferior to Edwards Lifesciences Corp.'s Sapien and Medtronic PLC’s CoreValve TAVR systems in patients with high or extreme surgical risk.

Greg Fontana of the Cardiovascular Institute of Los Robles in Thousand Oaks, CA, presented the results at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT)

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