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St. Jude Medical Receives CE Mark Approval for Trifecta Valve

Published in Health Business Week, March 19th, 2010

St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced that it has received CE Mark approval for the Trifecta™ valve, marking the Company's launch into the market for pericardial aortic stented tissue valves.

The Trifecta tissue valve is used to replace a patient's diseased, damaged or malfunctioning aortic heart valve, which controls blood flow from the heart to the rest of the body. The next-generation tissue valve has a tri-leaflet stented pericardial design which offers excellent hemodynamic performance, or nearly unobstructed blood flow, in order to mimic as closely as possible the flow of a natural, healthy heart. The unique valve design includes leaflets manufactured...

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