Summary Safety Review - Trifecta Heart Valve - Assessing the Potential Risk of Early Wear (English, HTML)

Summary Safety Review - Trifecta Heart Valve - Assessing the Potential Risk of Early Wear: English HTML file. From Health Canada, updated May 2024. View metadata, licence and the direct download on CanQuery.

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2024-05-10

After reviewing an article about the wearing out of the Trifecta heart valve 34 months after it was implanted in a patient, Health Canada carried out a safety review of related patient reports both in Canada and internationally. When a heart valve implant does not function properly it can place stress on the heart and a patient typically has to undergo surgery or an invasive procedure to have the valve repaired or replaced.

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