Edwards Lifesciences

Edwards Lifesciences is an American medical equipment company specializing in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. It is mostly known for a transcatheter aortic heart valve made of bovine tissue within a collapsible stainless-steel stent, deployed via catheter.[1]

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
Type
Public
Traded as
  • NYSE: EW
  • S&P 500 component
ISINUS28176E1082 
IndustryMedical device
Founded1958 (1958)
HeadquartersIrvine, California, U.S.
Key people
Michael A. Mussallem, Chairman & CEO
Products
Revenue$3.73 billion (2018)
Number of employees
12,800 (2018)
Websiteedwards.com

Their SAPIEN product is an FDA-approved device for percutaneous aortic valve replacement.[2]

References

  1. Visualizing the Sapien Heart Valve American Society of Mechanical Engineers - ASME
  2. Edward Lifesciences Receives FDA Approval Expanding Access to Sapien Heart Valves The Wall Street Journal Online
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