Structural Heart

This structural heart channel includes news, videos, podcasts and other content related to diagnosis and treatment of structural heart disease. Topics covered include heart valve repair and replacement, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR), left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion, heart failure interventional device therapies, and closing holes in the heart using, including occlusion of atrial septal defects (ASDs), ventricular septal defects (VSDs) and patent foramen ovales (PFOs).

The Smidt Heart Institute recently received CAROL Act funding to study the connection between ventricular arrhythmias-abnormal heartbeats that start in the heart’s two lower chambers-and an elevated risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with mitral valve disease
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You may not know Carol Barr, but in the future, she could save your life. 


Barr’s death at 39 from sudden cardiac ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

January 8, 2024 — University Hospitals (UH) Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute recently became the first center in ...

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January 5, 2024 — Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, today announced it has received CE (Conformité ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

January 4, 2024 — Findings from a published case series research letter by the Henry Ford Health Structural Heart ...

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December 22, 2023 — TRiCares SAS (“TRiCares”), a privately held pioneer in the field of minimally invasive treatment of ...

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News | Cath Lab

December 20, 2023 — Jason R. McCarthy, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical research and translational medicine and ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

December 18, 2023 — Death rates related to infective endocarditis declined in most adults across the U.S. within the ...

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December 12, 2023 — Think of them as the Energizer Bunnies of the heart, tiny natural batteries that keep this vital ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

November 20, 2023 — Abbott announced new late-breaking data that show advanced heart failure patients living with its He ...

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News | Artificial Heart

November 20, 2023 — Student engineers from the University of Bath are on top of the world after winning an international ...

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News | Artificial Heart

November 10, 2023 — BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company developing the Total Artificial Heart (TAH), has ...

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October 31, 2023 — Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced one-year results from CLASP IID, the first randomized ...

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October 26, 2023 — Abbott announced data from late-breaking presentations showing the impact of its minimally invasive ...

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