Minute Insight: Medtronic Relaunches Harmony Pulmonary Valve Replacement

The company pulled Harmony from the market about a year ago following six reports of the capsule at the end of its delivery catheter breaking.

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Medtronic is bringing its Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) back to the US market nearly a year after recalling it.

The company pulled Harmony from the market in March 2022, about a year after the US Food and Drug Administration approved it as a treatment for severe pulmonary valve regurgitation in patients with a congenital malformation of the right ventricular outflow tract

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