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Home » 8 companies commercializing transcatheter mitral valve replacements

8 companies commercializing transcatheter mitral valve replacements

May 22, 2018 By Danielle Kirsh

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[Images from Edwards Lifesciences, Highlife Medical and Abbott]
Transcatheter mitral valve replacement is a new frontier in the cardio device field, with big legacy medical device companies including Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic and Abbott spending hundreds of millions of dollars on companies in the space.

Much different from transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) has been mostly experimental.

TMVR is used to treat mitral regurgitation, which is a leakage of blood backward through the mitral valve each time the left ventricle closes. According to the American Heart Association, mitral regurgitation can cause an increase in blood volume and pressure in the area which can increase pressure in the veins leading from the lungs to the heart. In more severe cases, regurgitation can cause fluid build-up in the lungs.

Mitral regurgitation is the most frequent valve disease in the U.S. It affects nearly 1 in 10 people that are 75 years or older, according to a journal article from the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.

Most TMVR devices are investigational at the moment. The only TMVR device that has been commercialized is the MitraClip from Abbott. Here are the other medical device companies in the race to commercialize the next TMVR device.

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Filed Under: Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Replacement Heart Valves Tagged With: 4cmedical, Abbott, Boston Scientific, Edwards Lifesciences, HighLife, LivaNova, MedTech, Medtronic, neovasc, TMVR, transcatheter mitral valve replacement

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About Danielle Kirsh

Danielle Kirsh is an award-winning journalist and senior editor for Medical Design & Outsourcing, MassDevice, and Medical Tubing + Extrusion, and the founder of Women in Medtech and lead editor for Big 100. She received her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism and mass communication from Norfolk State University and is pursuing her master's in global strategic communications at the University of Florida. You can connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn, or email her at [email protected].

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