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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August 12, 2014 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) took action to improve access to Abbott’s MitraClip system ...

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August 5, 2014 — A survey, published online in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, of 13,860 patients who ...

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August 1, 2014 — Sorin Group received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Solo Smart Aortic ...

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August 1, 2014 — Occlutech announced that it has successfully obtained a ruling by the U.K. Patents Court in the High ...

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July 30, 2014 — New research from Penn Medicine shows that incisionless transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) ...

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July 30, 2014 — Following a heart attack, many heart failure patients suffer from enlargement of their left ventricle ...

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July 29, 2014 — Mary York knew the walk from the living room to the bedroom should not have been difficult for her ...

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July 22, 2014 — AtriCure announced it has sold more than 34,000 AtriClip left atrial appendage (LAA) exclusion system ...

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July 18, 2014 — Boston Scientific Corp. received CE mark and began the European commercial launch of its new 25 mm Lotus ...

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July 11, 2014 — DC Devices Inc. has closed a $34 million Series D financing round. Accelmed led the round with ...

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July 1, 2014 — BioVentrix announced the successful completion of it 50th clinical case using the Revivent myocardial ...

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June 24, 2014 — Researchers have announced the results of a study that used speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) to ...

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June 23, 2014 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that three-year clinical outcomes of its Edwards Intuity valve ...

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June 20, 2014 — Less aggressive anticoagulation therapy, combined with low-dose aspirin, can be used safely in ...

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