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).

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.

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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 ...

March 26, 2021

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

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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 ...

March 24, 2021

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

News | Heart Valve Technology

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 College ...

March 18, 2021

News | Congenital Heart

More Than 50,000 Children Screened for Congenital Heart Defects Using AI-enabled Stethoscopes

February 16, 2021 – In recognition of World Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) Awareness week, HD Medical Inc. announced it ...

February 16, 2021

Flexible electronics have been developed to implant in patients to constantly monitor their cardiac condition.

Feature | Udi Nussinovitch M.D., Ph.D.

What is New in Cardiology? A Review of All Major Emerging Technologies for Heart Diseases

This is an overview of some of the biggest cardiology technology advances. These innovations are covered in more detail ...

October 09, 2020

The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai is working with the Keck Medicine of USC heart surgery team to expand care for children and adults with congenital heart disease. An echocardiographer helps with cardiac ultrasound imaging in a hybrid OR during a congenital case using a Siemens SC2000 imaging system. Photo by Cedars-Sinai.

News | Congenital Heart

Smidt Heart Institute Enhances Congenital Heart Program to Follow Patients as Neonates Through Adulthood

August 10, 2020 - The Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai is expanding ...

August 10, 2020

Left, the Melody pulmonary valve was the first transcatheter valve to be approved by the FDA in the United States a decade ago. Right, the Harmony transcatheter valve is in trials and is designed to treat patients with RVOT anomalies who develop severe PR typically when a pervious repair fails. Both valves are used to treat congenital heart defects. #SCAI #SCAI2020

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Medtronic Congenital Heart Transcatheter Valve Studies Show Strong Results in SCAI Late-breakers

May 21, 2020 — Two late-breaking clinical trials on trans catheter valves to treat congenital heart disease were ...

May 21, 2020

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SCAI Issues Position Statement on Adult Congenital Cardiac Interventional Training, Competencies and Organizational Recommendations

May 4, 2020 – The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) has released a position statement on ...

May 04, 2020

Videos | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

VIDEO: Use of Cardiac MRI in Congenital and Women's Heart Disease

Karen Ordovas, M.D., MAS, professor of radiology and cardiology at the University of California San Francisco (UCFS) ...

January 06, 2020

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University of Arizona Leads Statewide Study of Congenital Heart Defects

October 24, 2019 — Investigators at the University of Arizona Steele Children's Research Center are leading a statewide ...

October 24, 2019

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Abbott Receives European CE Mark for Two Pediatric Heart Devices

September 20, 2019 – Abbott announced approvals in Europe for two of its pediatric devices — the Masters HP 15mm ...

September 20, 2019

News | Heart Failure

Max and Debra Ernst Heart Center Opening at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak

September 20, 2019 — The new Max and Debra Ernst Heart Center at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich., will open Sept. 30 ...

September 20, 2019

News | Hypertension

Pediatricians Assess How to Personalize Hypertension Treatment in Children

July 29, 2019 — High blood pressure among children is on the rise and a lack of research about how to treat it has left ...

July 29, 2019

News | Congenital Heart

High Blood Pressure, Cholesterol in Young Adults Associated With Later Heart Disease

July 16, 2019 — Elevated blood pressure and cholesterol levels in young adulthood may lead to an increased risk of heart ...

July 16, 2019

News | Implantable Cardiac Monitor (ICM)

Researchers File Patent for Tiny Blood Flow Sensor

July 9, 2019 — South Australian researchers are developing a tiny fiber-optic sensor, which has the potential to change ...

July 09, 2019