First PARTNER II Results Show Progress With Edwards’ TAVR Technology
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Next-generation Sapien XT transcatheter aortic valve replacement met its non-inferiority endpoint, and showed some procedural advantages over the FDA-approved Sapien device in the latest data from Edwards Lifescience’s TAVR program, presented at the 2013 American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions in San Francisco.
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