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

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November 15, 2011 – Results of the PARTNER Cohort A QOL study demonstrate that transcatheter aortic valve replacement ...

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November 4, 2011 – W. L. Gore & Associates announced that Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, United Kingdom, is ...

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October 19, 2011— W. L. Gore and Associates announced that the company purchased the assets and intellectual property ...

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September 27, 2011 — Occlutech announced its CEO, Tor Peters, has obtained a favorable ruling from the district court in ...

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August 25, 2011 – Transcatheter structural heart occluder maker Occlutech said this week it closed a 15 million Euro ...

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June 29, 2011 – For the first time, human blood vessels grown in a laboratory from donor skin cells have been ...

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May 16, 2011 - The German Supreme Court (BGH) declared a structural heart occluder patent case to be invalid. In the ...

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Alcohol Injections Safer, Less Costly Than Surgery for Thickened Heart Muscle

May 10, 2011 – In a “real-world” test ...

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March 4, 2011 - Occlutech GmbH received a favorable court ruling in Stockholm, Sweden in the ongoing patent ...

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November 15, 2010 - A catheter procedure that closes a hole in patients’ hearts appears to be no more effective ...

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November 3, 2010 – The first patient has been enrolled into a study comparing a left atrial appendage (LAA) ...

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The first-in-man use of the Coherex WaveCrest left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder system was successfully ...

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October 25, 2010 – The Hague, Netherlands ruled in favor of Occlutech, a transcatheter structural heart occluder ...

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St. Jude Medical Inc. said it plans to acquire AGA Medical Holdings Inc. for about $1.3 billion. The purchase will ...

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October 4, 2010 – Germany will reimburse patients who have a left atrial appendage closure procedure in 2011. The ...

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