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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).

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My observation over the 13 years covering cardiology is that it is a heavily male-dominated field. This is more ...

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EchoPixel showed technology at TCT 2019 that creates live holograms in the cath lab from 3-D TEE imaging. It projects the holograms on a special display screen that does not require the user to wear 3-D glasses. The interventional cardiologist can use hand movements and a foot switch to move the image around without breaking the sterile field. It offers a new way to visualize catheters, device positioning and deployment for structural heart procedures. #TCT2019 #TCT #TCT19
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The latest in interventional cardiology clinical data and new device technologies were highlighted at the annual Transca ...

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Former National Football League (NFL) player Ed White (left) needed a new aortic heart valve but decided to wait several months for the FDA to approve TACR for low-risk patients so he would not have to undergo open heart surgery. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders received two stents after he was hospitalized with chest pain was hospitalized with chest pain on Oct. 1 in Las Vegas. The event brought PCI to the forefront of national news in October.
Feature | Dave Fornell, Editor

November 1, 2019 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) m ...

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 Retired National Football League (NFL) star Ed White, the former Chargers guard and four-time Pro Bowler, waited until the FDA approved TAVR for low-risk patients like himself to avoid open-heart surgery.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology

October 29, 2019 — When Scripps cardiologists discovered early in 2019 that retired National Football League (NFL) great ...

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October 28, 2019 — The Gore Cardioform ASD Occluder received European CE mark clearance in early October. The device ...

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Videos | Vascular Closure Devices

Ashish Pershad, M.D., chief of interventional cardiology, Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix, explains the trend ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

Vivian Ng, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and an interventional cardiologist at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia ...

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TCT 2019 Late-breaking Presentations in the main arena. The top interventional cardiology studies of 2019. #TCT #TCT19 #TCT2019
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October 10, 2019 — Here are the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) 12 late-breaking trials and 16 late-breaking ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Torsten Vahl, M.D., director of experimental and translational research, Structural Heart and Valve Center and at the ...

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Videos | TCT

Chandan Devireddy, M.D., offers insights about what he saw as the top take aways from the 2019 Transcatheter ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

October 4, 2019 – A new analysis of the PARTNER 3 Trial data found a modest, but significant, improvement in one-year ...

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News | Heart Failure

October 4, 2019 – Results of a new economic analysis of the COAPT Trial data found that transcatheter mitral valve ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

October 3, 2019 – Five-year results from the PARTNER 2A Trial found patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) and ...

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News | Heart Failure

October 3, 2019 – The three-year results from the COAPT Trial demonstrated that reducing severe secondary mitral ...

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Videos | University of Colorado Hospital

Interview with John Carroll, M.D., director of interventional cardiology, Robert Quaife, M.D., director of advanced ...

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