Congenital Heart

This Congenital Heart Disease channel includes news and new technology to diagnose, treat and manage congenital heart disease. This includes transposed vessels, tetralogy of Fallot, pediatric cardiomyopathy, pulmonary heart valves, pulmonary atresia, patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial septal defect (ASD) and ventricular septal defect (VSD).

VIDEO: The Heart Team Approach in Congenital Structural Heart Interventions

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac cath labs, Seattle Children’s Hospital, explains the importance of the...
Development of Computer Generated Virtual Hearts Using Echocardiography

Outside of medicine, computer-generated virtual twins of real machines like cars or airplanes have been used in engineering to allow modeling in a virtual environment.
VIDEO: Advances in Congenital Heart Therapy Technologies

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories,...
VIDEO: Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Has Good Outcomes at 1 Year

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and principle...

Videos | Congenital Heart | September 15, 2021

VIDEO: The Heart Team Approach in Congenital Structural Heart Interventions

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac cath labs, Seattle Children’s Hospital, explains the importance of the heart team...

A comparison of color-flow Doppler cardiac ultrasound showing blood flow, and blood speckle tracking revealing a more detailed and complex understanding of the low. It shows the formation of a vortex that may play a role in future assessments for the efficiency of flow in the heart and vessels. #ASE21 #ASE2021 #Vectorflowimaging

A comparison of color-flow Doppler cardiac ultrasound showing blood flow, and blood speckle tracking revealing a more detailed and complex understanding of the flow. It shows the formation of a vortex that may play a role in future assessments for the efficiency of flow in the heart and vessels. Image from JASE, read more.

Feature | Cardiac Imaging | August 17, 2021 | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Development of Echo Blood Flow Dynamics Imaging

In the past several years, a few cardiac ultrasound vendors have developed new ways to image the intricate flow of...

Images or a digital twin mitral valve of a patient created from cardiac ultrasound that were used to perform a virtual surgical procedure to test how the intervention would impact the patient prior to actually performing the procedure. The right image shows color coding for sheer stresses on the valve leaflets before and after the virtual surgery. The right image shows the model quantitation of leaflet coaptation at peak systole prior to the the virtual surgery. Read the original article in Plos One https:/

Images, or a digital twin mitral valve of a patient, created from cardiac ultrasound that were used to perform a virtual surgical procedure to test how the intervention would impact the patient prior to actually performing the procedure. The right image shows color coding for sheer stresses on the valve leaflets before and after the virtual surgery. The left image shows the model quantitation of leaflet coaptation at peak systole prior to the virtual surgery. Read the original article in Plos One.

Feature | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | July 26, 2021 | By Dave Fornell, Editor

Development of Computer Generated Virtual Hearts Using Echocardiography

Outside of medicine, computer-generated virtual twins of real machines like cars or airplanes have been used in...

The Xeltis synthetic polymer restorative pulmonary valve is implanted surgically and acts as a scaffold for the patient's own cells to proliferate. The valve and conduit then bioresorbs over time, leaving behind a new valve made from the patient's own cells. The hope is this will reduce or eliminate the need for numerous repeat surgeries as a pediatric patient grows.

The Xeltis synthetic polymer restorative pulmonary valve is implanted surgically and acts as a scaffold for the patient's own cells to proliferate. The valve and conduit then bioresorbs over time, leaving behind a new valve made from the patient's own cells. The hope is this will reduce or eliminate the need for numerous repeat surgeries as a pediatric patient grows.

Feature | Heart Valve Technology | July 08, 2021

Xeltis Begins Pivotal Trial for Pulmonary Valve That Grows With the Patient

July 8, 2021 – Xeltis announced it started the first pivotal trial for a synthetic polymer restorative pulmonary valve...

Images from the ASE presentation. Left, UEA echo showing focal narrowing of the SCPC anastomosis and the same view on invasive angiography. Right, UAE echo showing complete occlusion of pulmonary artery and angiography showing the same view.

Images from the ASE presentation. Left, UEA echo showing focal narrowing of the SCPC anastomosis and the same view on invasive angiography. Right, UAE echo showing complete occlusion of pulmonary artery and angiography showing the same view.

News | Congenital Heart | June 29, 2021

Ultrasound Contrast Agents Greatly Aids in Complex Congenital Heart Imaging

June 29, 2021 – Echocardiography with ultrasound enhancing agents (UEAs) has proven to be a valuable imaging procedure...

Videos | Congenital Heart | May 26, 2021

VIDEO: Advances in Congenital Heart Therapy Technologies

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital, explains some of the new...

Videos | Structural Heart | May 13, 2021

VIDEO: Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Has Good Outcomes at 1 Year

Tom Jones, M.D., director, cardiac catheterization laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and principle...

PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children's lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve (PTV) for children, announced that it was awarded a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant earlier this year to bring its polymeric stent-mounted valve (SMV) to clinical trials within the next two years in an effort to address pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD), which affects over 1 million patients around the world.

News | Pediatric Cardiology | May 13, 2021

PolyVascular Awarded $2 Million Small Business Innovation Research Grant to Bring the First Polymer-Based Heart Valve for Children to Clinical Trials

May 13, 2021 — PolyVascular, leading the effort to improve children's lives with a novel polymeric transcatheter valve...

The NuMED 10-zig Covered CP (CCP) balloon expandable covered stent. It is used for repair of sinus venosus atrial septal defects (SVASD). #SVASD #SCAI2021 #congenitalheart #

The NuMED 10-zig Covered CP (CCP) balloon expandable covered stent.

News | Congenital Heart | May 01, 2021

Global registry Shows Longer Stent Minimizes Procedure Complications in Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defects

May 1, 2021 - An analysis of a new international registry reveals benefits of using a longer covered stent for...

The Medtronic Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) system offers a less invasive treatment option for patients with a congenital heart defect irregularity in their right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) that requires a pulmonary valve placement to restore valve function.

The Medtronic Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) system offers a less invasive treatment option for patients with a congenital heart defect irregularity in their right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) that requires a pulmonary valve placement to restore valve function.

Feature | Structural Heart | April 30, 2021 | Dave Fornell, Editor

One-year Results of the Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Trial Presented at SCAI 2021

April 30, 2021 — New study results validate the effectiveness of the Medtronic Harmony transcatheter pulmonary valve (...

The reSept ASD Occluder is the first structural heart occluder with a metal-free, bioresorbable frame. The novel implant is designed to overcome the limitations of current transcatheter occluders. It is hoped the design will reduce the risk of complications associated with the long-term presence of metal in the heart and to preserve future treatment options requiring transseptal intervention.

The reSept ASD Occluder is the first occluder with a metal-free, bioresorbable frame. It is designed to overcome the limitations of current transcatheter occluders by reducing the risk of complications associated with the long-term presence of metal in the heart and to preserve future treatment options requiring transseptal intervention.

News | Structural Heart Occluders | April 20, 2021

Bioresorbable ASD Occluder Prepares to Enter U.S. Clinical Trial

April 20, 2021 — Start-up medical device company atHeart Medical announced it is initiating its U.S. investigational...

The Medtronic Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) System. It is first in the world non-surgical heart valve to treat pediatric and adult patients with a native or surgically-repaired right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) to stop severe pulmonary valve regurgitation caused by congenital heart disease.

The Medtronic Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve (TPV) System is is designed for patients without a conduit with RVOT malformations who require a correction to their structural malformation early in life and need a minimally invasive option to restore pulmonary valve function.

Feature | Structural Heart | March 26, 2021 | By Dave Fornell, Editor

FDA Clears First Device to Treat Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Congenital Heart Disease

March 26, 2021 — Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the Medtronic Harmony Transcatheter...

Neonates and young pediatric patients with congenital heart disease have few options for implantable electrophysiology (EP) devices like pacemakers or ICDs.

News | Congenital Heart | March 24, 2021

Critical Need for Pediatric Electrophysiology Devices is Focus of Medical Device Competition

March 24, 2021 — Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects six out of 1,000 babies born in the U.S. each year and is often...

University of Minnesota researchers used a hybrid of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to create heart valves that can grow with the recipient. When implanted in lambs, researchers showed that the tri-tube valves worked better than current animal-derived valves with almost none of the calcification or blood clotting that the other valves showed. This can be implanted in pediatric patients with congenital heart diseas. Photo from Syedain, et al., Tranquillo Lab, University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota researchers used a hybrid of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to create heart valves that can grow with the recipient. When implanted in lambs, researchers showed that the tri-tube valves worked better than current animal-derived valves with almost none of the calcification or blood clotting that the other valves showed. Photo from Syedain, et al., Tranquillo Lab, University of Minnesota

News | Heart Valve Technology | March 18, 2021

Lab-created Heart Valves Can Grow With the Patient

March 18, 2020 — A groundbreaking new study led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers from both the...