FDA recalls delivery system of Sapien 3 Ultra within a week of approving it for low-risk patients

The FDA has issued a Class I recall—which it describes as “the most serious type of recall”—for the delivery system of the Sapien 3 Ultra transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) system. The recall follows Edwards Lifesciences receiving reports of burst balloons during implantation procedures, and it comes just under a week after the FDA [...]