August 8, 2016 — Updated recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) states that catheter-based...
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
An illustration of a Watchman transcatheter LAA occluder being implanted.
Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | August 01, 2016 | Dave Fornell
Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF or Afib) are high risk for stroke due to the formation of thrombus emboli in...
Videos | Structural Heart Occluders | June 16, 2016
This is an animation, supplied by Gore, demonstrated how the Cardioform Septal Occluder is implanted for the...
Feature | Structural Heart Occluders | May 27, 2016 | Dave Fornell
May 27, 2016 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended approval of a transcatheter patent...
The Boston Scientific Watchman device is currently the only transcatheter LAA occluder cleared for use in the United States.
Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | May 20, 2016 | Dave Fornell
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects nearly 6 million Americans and the condition puts them at significantly greater...
Videos | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | April 15, 2016
David Holmes, M.D., professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and consultant, Department of Internal...
Technology | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | February 09, 2016
February 9, 2016 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will cover...
Transcatheter repair of a surgical mitral replacement paravalvular leak with an Amplatzer Vascular Plug II.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | February 08, 2016 | Dave Fornell
Off-label use of the St. Jude Amplatzer vascular plug devices offers a new solution for the minimally invasive...
News | Structural Heart | January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016 — On the 100th anniversary of the Endurance expedition to Antarctica led by Sir Ernest Shackleton,...
Videos | TCT | November 05, 2015
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell offers his choices for the most innovative new interventional cardiovascular technologies...
Image courtesy of GE Healthcare
Feature | Stroke | October 16, 2015
October 16, 2015 — Long-term study results from the RESPECT trial found that closing a patent foramen ovale (PFO)...
News | Cath Lab | August 26, 2015
August 26, 2014 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced the late-breaking trials and first report...
Videos | Structural Heart | June 26, 2015
Interview with Steve Goldstein, M.D., director, noninvasive lab, Medstar Washington Heart Institute, Washington, D.C...
Videos | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | June 17, 2015
Role of Interventional Echcardiography in Transcatheter Structural Heart Procedures — Rebecca Hahn, M.D., Columbia...
Videos | Structural Heart | June 17, 2015
Interview with Ted Feldman, M.D., FACC, MSCAI, FESC, cardiac cath lab director,...
