{"id":483001,"date":"2026-10-02T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483001\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:24:08","slug":"edwards-wins-fda-approval-for-expandable-pediatric-heart-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483001\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwards Wins FDA Approval for Expandable Pediatric Heart Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irvine-based Edwards Lifesciences received FDA approval for what it says is the first surgical pulmonary valve specifically designed for pediatric patients.<\/p>\n<p>The medical device company\u2019s Autus valve, intended for patients with congenital heart disease and require pulmonary valve replacement, has the ability to expand as a child grows.<\/p>\n<p>Valve expansion is performed through a minimally invasive transcatheter procedure, reducing the need for repeat open-heart surgeries.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in Edwards (NYSE: EW) increased less than 1% to $85.37 and a $49 billion market cap a day following the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irvine-based Edwards Lifesciences received FDA approval for what it says is the first surgical pulmonary valve specifically designed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,12416],"class_list":["post-483001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-free-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}