CoreValve Overview

CoreValve’s mission is to develop and commercialize products that provide an alternative to heart valve replacement surgery.

Since the early 1960’s, valve replacement surgery has extended the lives of people with failing aortic heart valves. Unfortunately, valve replacement surgery currently requires accessing the chest and opening the heart. Many patients are simply too ill to be considered...More»

CoreValve’s mission is to develop and commercialize products that provide an alternative to heart valve replacement surgery.

Since the early 1960’s, valve replacement surgery has extended the lives of people with failing aortic heart valves. Unfortunately, valve replacement surgery currently requires accessing the chest and opening the heart. Many patients are simply too ill to be considered as candidates for this type of invasive surgery.

Working with leading interventional cardiologists and heart surgeons, CoreValve has developed a proprietary system which permits aortic valve replacement on a beating heart in a procedure performed entirely in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. This new technology aims to completely eliminate the need for open-chest surgery and any form of cardiac support during the aortic valve replacement procedure. These advances are expected to make heart valve replacement available to patients previously ineligible for this life-saving therapy.«Less