August 20, 2019 — Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have been shown to help leaky mitral valves that create ...
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).
August 16, 2019 — In one coordinated move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opened use of transcatheter ...
As we usher in a new era for treating patients with aortic stenosis, we have been reflecting on the evolution of the ...
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
Joao Cavalcante, M.D., FSCCT, director of structural heart CT and cardiac MRI, Minneapolis Heart Institute, discusses ...
July 19, 2019 — Medical device startup company Filterlex Medical recently completed a series A financing round, raising ...
July 18, 2019 — When a patient comes to the hospital with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD), a tearing of the inner ...
July 17, 2019 — Abbott has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the most advanced MitraClip hea ...
July 9, 2019 — Neovasc Inc. announced that its Tiara transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) device and its ...
July 8, 2019 — Berkeley, Calif.-based digital health company Eko unveiled an investigational aortic stenosis (AS) detect ...
July 5, 2019 — FEops announced that FEops HEARTguide was the winning entry at CSI Frankfurt 2019 voted on by physician ...
July 3, 2019 — A study of a procedure developed at Henry Ford Health System shows inducing a heart attack in patients ...
Federico Asch, M.D., FASE, director of cardiac imaging research and director of the cardiovascular imaging lab, MedStar ...
Judy Hung, M.D., director of echocardiography, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, explains ...
June 24, 2019 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized its decision to update the ...
Sanjaya Gupta, M.D., electrophysiologist, St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, and assistant professor, University of ...
August 20, 2019