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).

Transesophageal Echo, TEE. Interventional echocardiography, interventional echo, Philips, CX50
Feature | Cath Lab Navigation Aids | Dave Fornell

The rapid growth of transcatheter structural heart procedures and the need for increased use of echocardiography as an ...

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News | Embolic Protection Devices

September 20, 2016 – Claret Medical announced its filing of a marketing application with the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

September 19, 2016 — Edwards Lifesciences received European CE mark to expand use of the Edwards Sapien 3 transcatheter ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

September 19, 2016 — Valtech Cardio Ltd. announced that it will present the first-in-man data for its Cardioband ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

September 19, 2016 — Boston Scientific received European CE mark approval for its Lotus Edge Valve System, the company's ...

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News | Congenital Heart

September 9, 2016 — New research published Sept. 8 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology reports the role of genes in ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

September 9, 2016 — Six-month preclinical data from trials of a Xeltis bioabsorbable aortic conduit were presented at ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

September 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the start of the St. Jude Medical Amplatzer Amulet IDE trial of the ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

September 1, 2016 — First outcome results from the GLORIA-AF Registry show that treatment with Pradaxa (dabigatran ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

August 26, 2016 — This week, PinnacleHealth, Harrisburg, Pa., became the first hospital in the country to implant the ...

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News | Structural Heart

August 25, 2016 — People with a family member who had an aortic dissection — a spontaneous tear in one of the body’s ...

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Sapien III, Sapien 3, PARTNER III, FDA approval, expanded indication, intermediate risk patients
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell

August 18, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indications for both the Edwards ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

This video, provided by Edwards Lifesciences, demonstrates the Intuity Elite surgical aortic valve, which uses a balloon ...

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Technology | Heart Valve Technology

August 15, 2016 – Edwards Lifesciences announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved of the advanced ...

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News | Structural Heart Occluders

August 8, 2016 — Updated recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) states that catheter-based closure ...

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