Heart Valve Replacement Manufacturers – Who Are They?
By Adam Pick on November 5, 2007
A great topic… Heart Valve Manufacturers.
They design, develop and manufacture the little gizmos that replicate the functioning of our own tissue heart valves.
However, often times, patients know very little about the manufacturers of mechanical or biological heart valve replacement devices. That said, the question of “Who are the top heart valve manufacturers?” is a great one.
Edwards Lifesciences Valve Replacement
There are three heart valve manufacturers that are very, very, very reputable in the heart valve replacement market:
- St. Jude Medical
- Edwards LifeSciences
- Medtronic
I have written about each of these heart valve manufacturers in past blogs. They are each unique in their strategies for developing replacement heart valves.
There are also some newer heart valve manufacturers that are creating different approaches to heart valve replacement using special tissue or catheter-based replacement techniques. Those heart valve manufacturers include:
- eValve – Purchased by Abbott Laboratories
- ATS Medical – Purchased by Medtronic
- On-X
- CoreValve – Purchased by Medtronic
Keep on tickin!
Adam
Written by Adam Pick
- Patient & Website Founder
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pravesh kumar says on January 17th, 2008 at 6:37 am |
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My dear Sir, thank you Very very much first of all because you have given very unique information that i was looking for. and i am a patient of Arotic valave reg.(lekage). and going to be oprated in india. again thanks yours |
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Francis says on December 24th, 2010 at 5:28 am |
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Dear Adam, I have a very hard operation in front of me, Aorta and mitral valve |
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koen Junggeburth says on June 22nd, 2011 at 2:17 pm |
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Dear Adam, you forgot the biggest European Heart Valve company: Sorin. with regards, Koen Junggeburth |
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james moore says on October 21st, 2011 at 8:26 pm |
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i have had two valves in the aorta and the mitrel i feel fine i had endocarditis i feel ok now but i think people should be aweare of endocarditis there is not anothe information on this subject it is a killer i got it from my teeth but i had surgery when i was 7 i had my 1 valve in at 37 and the 2 one wen i was 40 i am 44 now |
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