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).

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March 16, 2015 — Boston Scientific Corp. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Watchman ...

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March 13, 2015 — AtriCure Inc. announced the first two patients in the Dual Epicardial and Endocardial Procedure (DEEP) ...

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Feature | Gregory Chodaczek, analyst for Sterne Agee

Key data from many transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) clinical trials will be presented as late-breakers at ...

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March 10, 2015 — In an analysis of outcomes of about 12,000 patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve ...

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February 27, 2015 — Four-month-old Jackson Lane has a large scar that looks like a giant zipper down the center of his ...

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February 24, 2015 — In light of a recent American Heart Association report stating that U.S. mitral valve regurgitation ...

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February 23, 2015 — Pie Medical Imaging BV announced that it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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Adam Greenbaum, M.D., and William O'Neill, M.D., perform a TAVR procedure in a hybrid cath lab at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Structural heart
Feature | Lynn Tangorra
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is not only a breakthough minimally invasive medical therapy, but offers a ...
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News | Dave Fornell

As editor of DAIC, I keep a close watch on trends in cardiovascular technology and try to predict what the next big ...

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February 9, 2015 — Medtronic announced CE (Conformité Européene) mark for the 26 and 29 mm sizes of the CoreValve Evolut ...

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February 9, 2015 — A minimally invasive procedure to repair severe mitral valve regurgitation by clipping together the ...

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January 28, 2015 — Neovasc Inc. has commenced a public offering in the United States of 8 million shares of the company ...

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January 28, 2015 — Maquet Medical Systems USA announced an agreement to serve as the exclusive U.S. distributor of ...

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Technology | Dave Fornell

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of Medtronic’s premarket approval application (PMA) for ...

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