There were several notable presentations of new data on cardiovascular technologies at the recent 2018 American College ...
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
March 20, 2018 — Among people with a type of hole in the heart, known as patent foramen ovale (PFO), those who received ...
March 20, 2018
Vivek Reddy, M.D., director of cardiac arrhythmia services and professor of medicine, cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital ...
November 14, 2017
John Rhodes, M.D., co-director of the adult congenital heart program, Medical University of South Carolina, is the ...
November 08, 2017
November 2, 2017 – Five-year results from the PREVAIL Trial comparing left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) with the ...
November 02, 2017
Ziyad Hijazi, M.D., MPH, MSCAI, FACC, director of the cardiac program and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Sidra ...
September 13, 2017
September 7, 2017 — Closure of the left atrial appendage (LAA) during heart surgery protects the brain, according to ...
September 07, 2017
September 5, 2017 — Abbott announced it has initiated a U.S. pivotal clinical study evaluating the safety and ...
September 05, 2017
May 30, 2017 — Data was positive for safety and efficacy rates of the Watchman Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) ...
May 30, 2017
March 29, 2017 — For patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib), closing the area of the heart known as the left atrial ...
March 29, 2017
March 3, 2017 — A Henry Ford Hospital study found a 100 percent success rate in left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion ...
March 03, 2017
February 15, 2017 — Doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have implemented the first U.S. Food and Drug ...
February 15, 2017
February 1, 2017 — Baylor Heart and Vascular Services at Fort Worth in November became the first program in Texas to ...
February 01, 2017
January 23, 2017 — Over 93 percent of heart attack patients are receiving stents within the guideline-recommended ...
January 23, 2017
November 7, 2016 – Results from the U.S. real-world, post-FDA approval experience of the Watchman device found high ...
November 07, 2016