November 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the long-term data from RESPECT, a landmark trial, during a First ...
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
November 02, 2016
November 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and ...
November 02, 2016
October 19, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the launch of the ADO II AS (AMPLATZER Duct Occluder II Additional ...
October 19, 2016
September 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the start of the St. Jude Medical Amplatzer Amulet IDE trial of the ...
September 02, 2016
August 8, 2016 — Updated recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) states that catheter-based closure ...
August 08, 2016
Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | Dave Fornell
Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF or Afib) are high risk for stroke due to the formation of thrombus emboli in the ...
August 01, 2016
This is an animation, supplied by Gore, demonstrated how the Cardioform Septal Occluder is implanted for the ...
June 16, 2016
Feature | Structural Heart Occluders | Dave Fornell
May 27, 2016 — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended approval of a transcatheter patent foramen ...
May 27, 2016
Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | Dave Fornell
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects nearly 6 million Americans and the condition puts them at significantly greater risk of ...
May 20, 2016
David Holmes, M.D., professor of medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and consultant, Department of Internal ...
April 15, 2016
February 9, 2016 — Boston Scientific Corp. announced the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will cover ...
February 09, 2016
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell
Off-label use of the St. Jude Amplatzer vascular plug devices offers a new solution for the minimally invasive repair of ...
February 08, 2016
January 20, 2016 — On the 100th anniversary of the Endurance expedition to Antarctica led by Sir Ernest Shackleton ...
January 20, 2016
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell offers his choices for the most innovative new interventional cardiovascular technologies ...
November 05, 2015
October 16, 2015 — Long-term study results from the RESPECT trial found that closing a patent foramen ovale (PFO) with ...
October 16, 2015