Results Recap: VIVA Conference Yields Plethora Of Vascular Intervention Data
Executive Summary
Results Recap is Medtech Insight's exclusive summary of clinical trial results that have been announced or published in the past week, based on information collected by Meddevicetracker. This week's edition, covering the week of Nov. 3 - Nov. 9, includes trial data presented at the VIVA (Vascular InterVentional Advances) conference in Las Vegas, Nov. 5-8 as well as data from the initial experience with Medtronic's 34-mm CoreValve Evolut R TAVR system and the PARTNER IIA trial of Edwards' Sapien XT TAVR system.
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