Blog Topic: Who Are The Leading Heart Valve Replacement Manufacturers?

A great topic… Heart Valve Manufacturers.

They design, develop and manufacture the little gizmos that replicate the functioning of our own tissue heart valves.

However, often times, patients know very little about the manufacturers of  mechanical or biological heart valve replacement devices. That said, the question of “Who are the top heart valve manufacturers?” is a great one.

Edwards LifeSciences Valve Replacement

There are three heart valve manufacturers that are very, very, very reputable in the heart valve replacement market:

• St. Jude Medical
• Edwards LifeSciences
• Medtronic

I have written about each of these heart valve manufacturers in past blogs.  They are each unique in their strategies for developing replacement heart valves.

There are also some newer heart valve manufacturers that are creating different approaches to heart valve replacement using special tissue or catheter-based replacement techniques. Those heart valve manufacturers include:

• eValve
• ATS Medical
• On-X
• CoreValve

Keep on tickin!

About The Author: Adam Pick is a double, heart valve surgery patient and author of The Patient’s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. This unique book integrates the clinical facts of heart valve surgery with the personal experiences of 78 former valve surgery patients to help patients and caregivers better understand the opportunities, problems and challenges of heart valve surgery. [1] To learn more about Adam and his heart valve surgery book, click here.