New Products In Brief
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Recent launches and approvals include overseas debuts of Abbott’s Absorb bioabsorbable vascular scaffold and Medtronic’s next-generation CoreValve Evolut transcatheter aortic heart valve.
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