Edwards' Evoque is the first transcatheter therapy to receive FDA approval for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation. The FDA-approved labeling says it can improve patients' "health status" but the company may be able to soon upgrade that indication to include a mortality benefit claim, which could give Evoque an important advantage over tricuspid valve repair devices.
The US Food and Drug Administration approved Edwards Lifesciences’ Evoque tricuspid valve replacement system to improve the “health status” of people with symptomatic severe tricuspid regurgitation.
The approval, announced on 1 February, makes Evoque the first FDA-approved transcatheter tricuspid replacement valve. Evoque earned FDA's breakthrough status in 2019 and a CE mark in October 2023....
TRiCares presented data from the first-in-human study for its tricuspid valve replacement system – Topaz – at EuroPCR 2025 on 22 May.
The US’ 90-day suspension of higher “reciprocal tariffs” will expire on 9 July, raising fears that the 31% tariff rate on Swiss medtech and other goods exported to the US might make a comeback. While the tariff situation changes on an almost daily basis, medtechs should forearm for any eventually, say local business organizations.
Guardant Health introduces a new germline panel test to help guide cancer treatment, assess the risk of secondary cancers in patients and identify family members at risk of cancer.
