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This PARTNER would give sleep less nights to our cardiac surgeons !

Posted in cardiac surgery, Cardiology -Interventional -PCI, cardiology -Therapeutics, valvular heart disease, tagged edwards sapiens, Partner 2, tavi on May 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Cardiologists are closing in , trying to capture the final frontiers. The trans-cutaneous Aortic valve Implantation now has a two year follow up. (NEJM March 2012 Issue) . The results are encouraging .

While two companies are fighting for the supremacy in TAVI , the real threat is for the cardiac surgeons. Currently Edward Sapiens has an edge over Medtronic core valve as it has a provision to redeploy or fine-tune the final geo- position.

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