September 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the start of the St. Jude Medical Amplatzer Amulet IDE trial of the ...
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
August 8, 2016 — Updated recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) states that catheter-based closure ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF or Afib) are high risk for stroke due to the formation of thrombus emboli in the ...
This is an animation, supplied by Gore, demonstrated how the Cardioform Septal Occluder is implanted for the ...

May 27, 2016 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended approval of a transcatheter patent foramen ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects nearly 6 million Americans and the condition puts them at significantly greater risk of ...
David Holmes, M.D., professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and consultant, Department of Internal ...
February 9, 2016 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will cover ...

Off-label use of the St. Jude Amplatzer vascular plug devices offers a new solution for the minimally invasive repair of ...
January 20, 2016 — On the 100th anniversary of the Endurance expedition to Antarctica led by Sir Ernest Shackleton ...
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell offers his choices for the most innovative new interventional cardiovascular technologies ...

October 16, 2015 — Long-term study results from the RESPECT trial found that closing a patent foramen ovale (PFO) with ...
August 26, 2014 — The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced the late-breaking trials and first report ...
Interview with Steve Goldstein, M.D., director, noninvasive lab, Medstar Washington Heart Institute, Washington, D.C ...
Role of Interventional Echcardiography in Transcatheter Structural Heart Procedures — Rebecca Hahn, M.D., Columbia ...