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    Back to homeEducational Mission Statement

    Edwards Lifesciences is committed to supporting educational conferences, symposia, trainings and programs in order to support knowledge-based expansion on heart valve disease and surgical heart valve therapies. Edwards Lifesciences will consider funding requests for programs that contain content and curricula that is relevant to structural heart disease, heart valve disease, and related topics, in alignment with Edwards Lifesciences' stated training and educational objectives.

    Educational Objectives

    If your event or program is intended for cardiothoracic surgeons or heart team audiences, Edwards Lifesciences will consider providing grant funding support for educational topics that:

    • Support the safe and effective use of Edwards Lifesciences surgical structural heart devices
    • Assist with understanding best surgical treatment practices of aortic, mitral, and tricuspid valve, and aortic root disease
    • Aid with surgical heart valve disease diagnosis, procedure planning, and lifetime management
    • Enhance understanding of newly released data relating to surgical valve interventions

    If your event or program is intended for the referring healthcare professional audience, then Edwards Lifesciences will carefully consider the request against the educational objectives cited above.

    Important safety information

    INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve

    Indications: For use in replacement of native or prosthetic aortic heart valves.

    Important safety information

    RESILIA Tissue Devices

    Indications: INSPIRIS RESILIA Aortic Valve - For use in replacement of native or prosthetic aortic heart valves. KONECT RESILIA Aortic Valved Conduit - For use in replacement of native or prosthetic aortic heart valves and the associated repair or replacement of a damaged or diseased ascending aorta. MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve - For use in replacement of native or prosthetic mitral heart valves.

    Contraindications: There are no known contraindications with the use of these RESILIA tissue heart valve devices.

    Complications and Side Effects: INSPIRIS RESILIA Aortic Valve - Thromboembolism, valve thrombosis, hemorrhage, hemolysis, regurgitation, endocarditis, structural valve deterioration, nonstructural dysfunction, stenosis, arrhythmia, transient ischemic attack/stroke, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, any of which could lead to reoperation, explantation, permanent disability, and death. Additional adverse events potentially associated with the use of polyester vascular grafts in the KONECT RESILIA AVC include hemorrhage, thrombosis, graft infection, embolism, aneurysm, pseudoaneurysm, seroma, occlusion (anastomotic intimal hyperplasia), immunological reaction to collagen (shown to be a weak immunogen; infrequent, mild, localized and self-limiting), intimal peel formation, and conduit dilatation. MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve - Thromboembolism, valve thrombosis, hemorrhage, hemolysis, regurgitation, endocarditis, structural valve deterioration, nonstructural dysfunction, stenosis, arrhythmia, transient ischemic attack/stroke, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, ventricular perforation by stent posts, any of which could lead to reoperation, explantation, permanent disability, and death.

    Warnings: INSPIRIS RESILIA Aortic Valve - DO NOT ADJUST THE VALVE DIAMETER BY EXPANDING THE BAND PRIOR TO OR DURING IMPLANTATION OF THE SURGICAL VALVE. The expandable band is not designed to allow for compression or expansion during implantation of the surgical valve. This will cause damage to the valve and may result in aortic incompetence. DO NOT PERFORM STAND-ALONE BALLOON AORTIC VALVULOPLASTY PROCEDURES ON THIS VALVE FOR THE SIZES 19 – 25 mm as this may expand the valve causing aortic incompetence, coronary embolism or annular rupture. Valve-in-valve sizing in the INSPIRIS valve has only been tested with specific Edwards transcatheter heart valves. Use of other transcatheter valves may result in embolization of transcatheter devices anchored within or result in annular rupture.

    Caution: Federal (United States) law restricts this device to sale by or on the order of a physician.See instructions for use for full prescribing information.

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