Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, a medical technology company, specializes in artificial heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring. Its products include surgical valves, transcatheter heart valves, and transcatheter mitral and tricuspid therapies. The company originated the SAPIEN transcatheter aortic heart valve made of cow tissue within a balloon-expandable, cobalt-chromium frame, deployed via catheter. Edwards was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.