ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANY SUMMARIES The following pages have been provided by the companies listed below and shall serve as an overview of clinically used technologies as well as to present future developments and trends in regard of aortic valve procedures. This is not an exhaustive list and data were collected by voluntary response. A total of 24 companies were asked to provide standardized information about business, device development, and clinical or nonclinical data. The following companies were contacted via e-mail: 3F Therapeutics, ABPS, AorTx, ATS Medical, Arbor Medical, CoreValve, Cardious, DirectFlow, Edwards Lifesciences, EndoCor, Endoluminal research Technology, EndoHeart, Heart Leaflet, JenaValve, JoTec, LPI repositionable, Lutter Heart Valve, Medtronic, Sadra Medical, Shelhigh, St. Jude Medical, Sorin, ValveXchange, Ventor.
