Structural Heart Occluders

This channel includes news and new technology innovations about structural heart occluders. These include information of surgical repair and transcatheter closure of PFO, VSD, ASD and LAA. Devices include the Amplatzer and the Gore Helex

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November 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the long-term data from RESPECT, a landmark trial, during a First ...

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November 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and ...

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October 19, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the launch of the ADO II AS (AMPLATZER Duct Occluder II Additional ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

September 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the start of the St. Jude Medical Amplatzer Amulet IDE trial of the ...

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August 8, 2016 — Updated recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) states that catheter-based closure ...

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Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | Dave Fornell

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF or Afib) are high risk for stroke due to the formation of thrombus emboli in the ...

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Videos | Structural Heart Occluders

This is an animation, supplied by Gore, demonstrated how the Cardioform Septal Occluder is implanted for the ...

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Feature | Structural Heart Occluders | Dave Fornell

May 27, 2016 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended approval of a transcatheter patent foramen ...

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Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | Dave Fornell

Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects nearly 6 million Americans and the condition puts them at significantly greater risk of ...

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Videos | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

David Holmes, M.D., professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and consultant, Department of Internal ...

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February 9, 2016 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will cover ...

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transcatheter repair of a mitral valve paravalvular leak. Transcatheter repair of a surgical mitral replacement paravalvular leak with an Amplatzer Vascular Plug II.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell

Off-label use of the St. Jude Amplatzer vascular plug devices offers a new solution for the minimally invasive repair of ...

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January 20, 2016 — On the 100th anniversary of the Endurance expedition to Antarctica led by Sir Ernest Shackleton ...

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Videos | TCT

DAIC Editor Dave Fornell offers his choices for the most innovative new interventional cardiovascular technologies ...

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October 16, 2015 — Long-term study results from the RESPECT trial found that closing a patent foramen ovale (PFO) with ...

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