Cardio Catch-Up: More Conferences, More New Data From Abbott And Medtronic

Medtech Insight’s Cardiovascular Catch-Up highlights some of the recent news on cardiovascular tech innovations in the last two months. This edition focuses on news from conferences, held over the last two months, including the Heart Rhythm Society and the TVT Structural Heart Summit.

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New one-year results from 413 patients in the global EXPAND study of Abbott’s next-generation MitraClip mitral valve repair system demonstrate the benefits of MitraClip in a broad population of patients with functional (secondary) mitral regurgitation (MR).

The study, which is the largest contemporary real-world study of the MitraClip NTR/XTR system, showed that mitral valve repair with...

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