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).
This is the latest version of the MitraClip, the G4, which allows each side of the clip to be opened and closed independently to offer more flexibility when capturing the valve leaflets. The device is being used in the REPAIR MR clinical trial.
News | Heart Valve Technology | January 13, 2020
January 13, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved clinical trial that will compare the...
Ten out of the top 25 videos in 2019 are from hospital site visits DAIC conducted and shot more than 10 video interviews and recorded cath lab procedures at each center. Two of the videos here are walk throughs of cath labs, showing how Henry Ford Hospital and the University of Colorado set up their main hybrid rooms for structural heart procedures. This photo is from a MitraClip procedure during the University of Colorado visit last December.
Feature | December 30, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
Here are the top performing 25 videos posted to the DAIC website in the past year, based on Google Analytics. These the...
The Wyss Translational Center in Zurich, Switzerland has developed the LifeMatrix platform to engineer tissues that can be implanted in patients and will grow with them. This technology is being developed for heart valves in younger patients to eliminate the need for repeat surgeries to implant larger prosthetic heart valves as the patient grows.
News | Heart Valve Technology | December 26, 2019
While transcatheter heart valve replacement and repair devices are growing in popularity due to their delivery and...
Append Medical, developer of a novel left atrial appendage (LAA) closure device to minimize stroke risk in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients, announced that it has been selected from among hundreds of startups as a finalist for the ICI Innovation Award Competition. It uses a transcatheter lasso system so no implant is left behind and eliminates the possibility of embolization.
News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | December 18, 2019
December 18, 2019 — Append Medical, developer of a novel left atrial appendage (LAA) closure device to minimize stroke...
News | Heart Failure | December 18, 2019
December 18, 2019 — BioVentrix, Inc., developer of the first less invasive system for left ventricular remodeling,...
The most popular content in the month of November on DAIC was by far the data from the late-breaking trials from the American Herart Association (AHA) 2019 meeting. The second item on this month's list is an overview of key heart failure takeaways from AHA by Nasrien Ibrahim, M.D., associate director of resynchronization and advanced cardiac therapeutics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Photo by Scott Morgan/AHA.
Feature | December 17, 2019
December 16, 2019 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC...
A sample of the transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) devices in development or clinical trials.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | November 27, 2019 | Saipriya Iyer
The overwhelming success story for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) moving from a science project to...
A key slide from the TRILUMINATE study one-year results showing the improvement in tricuspid regurgitation from basement with treatment using the transcatheter TriClip device.
News | Heart Valve Technology | November 26, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
November 26, 2019 — The preliminary one-year results of the TRILUMINATE Pivotal Study for Abbott's TriClip device, a...
Feature | AHA | November 19, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
November 19, 2019 — Here is a list of the key late-breaking clinical study presentations and links to the results at...
One of the cardiology technologies in the list of top advances in 2019 is Medtronic’s Tyrx Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope using to enclose cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs). It reduced the risk of major infection by 40 percent, and pocket infection by 61 percent, based on data presented at ACC 2019.
News | November 06, 2019
November 6, 2019 — Cleveland Clinic announced the Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2020 at a multimedia presentation last...
Feature | November 06, 2019
November 6, 2019 — Edwards Lifesciences announced it received European CE mark to expand use of the Edwards Sapien 3...
The first all-women panel discussion on structrual heart cases was held at TCT 2019. Rebecca Hahn, M.D., foreground, was the co-organizer of the Women in Structural Heart (WISH) evening session.
Blog | Structural Heart | November 04, 2019
My observation over the 13 years covering cardiology is that it is a heavily male-dominated field. This is more...
EchoPixel showed technology at TCT 2019 that creates live holograms in the cath lab from 3-D TEE imaging. It projects the holograms on a special display screen that does not require the user to wear 3-D glasses. The interventional cardiologist can use hand movements and a foot switch to move the image around without breaking the sterile field. It offers a new way to visualize catheters, device positioning and deployment in structural heart procedures. (Photos by Dave Fornell)
Feature | TCT | November 04, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
The latest in interventional cardiology clinical data and new device technologies were highlighted at the annual...
Former National Football League (NFL) player Ed White (left) needed a new aortic heart valve, but decided to wait several months for the FDA to approve TAVR for low-risk patients so he would not have to undergo open heart surgery. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders received two stents after he was hospitalized with chest pain was hospitalized with chest pain on Oct. 1 in Las Vegas. The event brought PCI to the forefront of national news in October.
Feature | November 01, 2019 | Dave Fornell, Editor
November 1, 2019 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC)...
Retired National Football League (NFL) star Ed White, the former Chargers guard and four-time Pro Bowler, waited until the FDA approved TAVR for low-risk patients like himself to avoid open-heart surgery.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | October 29, 2019
October 29, 2019 — When Scripps cardiologists discovered early in 2019 that retired National Football League (NFL)...
