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).

A transcaval access TAVR procedure, showing a guide wire in the vena cava and a snare located in the aorta to pull the guide wire through.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell

Patient selection for who is best suited for a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure is partly based ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Northwestern Medicine has purchased several smaller Chicago suburban hospitals in the past few years to expand its ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

April 6, 2018 —  University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute has officially opened the APOLLO trial ...

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Technology | Structural Heart Occluders

April 3, 2018 — Following the unprecedented Gore REDUCE Clinical Study conclusion that closure of patent foramen ovale ...

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American College of Cardiology, #ACC18
Feature | Dave Fornell

Here is the list of the most popular articles and videos on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 30, 2018 — LivaNova PLC announced the first patient enrollment in the Perceval Valve Clinical study for Chinese ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 27, 2018 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that enrollment is complete in the computed tomography (CT) imagin ...

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A patient who received HeartMate III LVAD system at ACC.18. The HeartMate 3 was the topic of of the the key late-breaking trials at #ACC18
Feature | ACC | Dave Fornell

There were several notable presentations of new data on cardiovascular technologies at the recent 2018 American College ...

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Edwards Lifesciences received European CE mark clearance for its self-expanding Centera transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device for severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis patients at high risk of open-heart surgery.
Feature | Dave Fornell

Here is the list of the most popular articles and videos on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC) magazine ...

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News | ACC

March 20, 2018 — Among people with a type of hole in the heart, known as patent foramen ovale (PFO), those who received ...

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Videos | Congenital Heart

A discussion with Ami Bhatt, M.D., director of the adult congenital heart program and outpatient cardiology ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Insights from the STS/ACC TVT Transcatheter Valve Registry, presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2018 ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 12, 2018 — Medtronic plc unveiled outcomes from the CoreValve U.S. Pivotal Extreme Risk Study and the real-world ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approval of a heart valve to include a size small enough to be used ...

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Sammy Elmariah, M.D., MPH, interventional structural heart disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the ...

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