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).

Figure 1: A computed tomography angiography (CTA) study performed for transcatheter aortic valve replacement planning.  Interventional imagers created and interpret these images as part of the heart team.
Feature | Structural Heart | Nadeen N. Faza, M.D., Dee Dee Wang, M.D., Joao Cavalcante, M.D., Andrew D. Choi, M.D., Jeffrey B. Geske, M.D., and Stephen H. Little, M.D.
Recent months have signaled a new and exciting era in the dynamic world of structural heart disease (SHD). The COAPT ...
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Boston Scientific Receives FDA Approval for Lotus Edge Aortic Valve System
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell, Editor

April 23, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Boston Scientific Lotus Edge transcatheter ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

April 22, 2019 — Five cardiovascular professional societies released a new consensus document on optimizing care for ...

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News | Cath Lab

April 18, 2019 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a draft guidance titled, “Technical Considerations for ...

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Angiography shows a stenotic lesion in the mid right coronary artery, undilatable by standard high-pressure balloon angioplasty (inset, arrowheads). (B) Optical coherence tomography (OCT) cross-sectional (top) and longitudinal (bottom) images acquired before IVL and coregistered to the OCT lens (arrow in A) demonstrate severe near-circumferential calcification in the area of the stenosis. (C) Angiography demonstrates improvement in the area of stenosis after IVL lithoplasty.
Feature | Cath Lab | Dean Kereiakes, M.D., FACC, FSCAI, and Jonathan Hill, M.D., DISRUPT CAD III Co-Principal Investigators

Over the last 40 years, despite multiple advancements in percutaneous coronary interventions, calcified lesions remain a ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology | Jeff Zagoudis, Associate Editor

April 8, 2019 — Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is reportedly recovering after undergoing a transcatheter aortic ...

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April 3, 2019 – The ACC.19 late-breaking landmark Evolut Low Risk Trial compared the minimally invasive Evolut ...

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Technology | Vascular Closure Devices

April 3, 2019 — Essential Medical Inc. received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its large bore ...

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All major vendors offering advanced visualization software now offer structural heart planning. This is an example of GE Healthcare's Valve Assist software being used to determine the best location of a transseptal puncture to deliver a left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder.
Feature | Structural Heart | Jeff Zagoudis
Structural heart interventions represent one of the fastest growing segments of cardiology, as the number of devices to ...
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News | Structural Heart Occluders

March 27. 2019 — A newly released expert consensus statement provides recommendations for the safe and effective ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 27, 2019 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed to update its national coverage policy ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 22, 2019 — Among patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at low surgical risk, transcatheter aortic valve ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

March 21, 2019 — Clinicians should use echocardiography when determining whether patients with heart failure and a ...

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