Structural Heart

This structural heart channel includes news, videos, podcasts and other content related to diagnosis and treatment of structural heart disease. Topics covered include heart valve repair and replacement, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR), left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion, heart failure interventional device therapies, and closing holes in the heart using, including occlusion of atrial septal defects (ASDs), ventricular septal defects (VSDs) and patent foramen ovales (PFOs).

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November 3, 2010 – The first patient has been enrolled into a study comparing a left atrial appendage (LAA) ...

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The first-in-man use of the Coherex WaveCrest left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder system was successfully ...

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October 25, 2010 – The Hague, Netherlands ruled in favor of Occlutech, a transcatheter structural heart occluder ...

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St. Jude Medical Inc. said it plans to acquire AGA Medical Holdings Inc. for about $1.3 billion. The purchase will ...

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October 15, 2010 – An investigational trial of Medtronic’s CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve has been approved ...

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October 5, 2010 – Edwards Lifesciences has opened a new 300,000-square-foot facility in Draper, Utah, allowing the ...

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October 4, 2010 – Germany will reimburse patients who have a left atrial appendage closure procedure in 2011. The ...

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September 29, 2010 – Physicians from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute will lead a clinical trial evaluating ...

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Transcatheter valve therapies were among the hottest topics at the 2010 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics ...

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September 28, 2010 – The Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 symposium featured a live case ...

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September 24, 2010 - The New England Journal of Medicine has published the results of from a trial looking at the ...

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September 24, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted conditional approval to start a ...

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September 23, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conditionally approved the first part of a ...

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September 23, 2010 - The first-in-human procedure to use ultrasound therapy to treat mitral regurgitation (MR) has ...

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September 23, 2010 – The first consensus document for treating structural heart disease has been published by the ...

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