Medtronic Prevented From Selling Heart Valve in US

Medtronic Prevented From Selling Heart Valve In US
Medtronic is appealing the ruling, but for now has stopped training new doctors in how to use the devices, and told surgeons already using the valves not to schedule any new procedures, the company said. The injunction was made at the request of …
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Study backs nonsurgical way to fix heart valves
A new study gives a big boost to fixing a bad aortic valve, the heart's main gate, without open-heart surgery. Survival rates were better one year later for people who had a new valve placed through a tube into an artery instead. The results were …
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Dr Le Fanu's online health clinic, Friday 11th April 2014
Thanks for that useful clarification for the current non availability of the ergotamine based drugs. Dear Doctor. I am a 77 year old female who was diagnosed, in 2001, with inappropriate sinus tachycardia – ablation/pacemaker not recommended …
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