April 7, 2014 — A first-ever randomized head-to-head comparison of two devices commonly used to treat aortic stenosis ...
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).
The biggest late-breaking news to come out of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2014 meeting was from the ...
April 2, 2014 — The key trial presented at the 2014 American College of Cardiology (ACC), which will likely be the one ...
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
April 1, 2014 — Medtronic Inc. announced the one-year results of the Melody transcatheter pulmonary valve (TPV) U.S ...
By Dave Fornell, DAIC editor
Data from several cutting-edge device clinical trials will be presented as late-breakers ...
March 19, 2014 — Surgeons in France have successfully replaced the aortic valve in two patients without opening the ches ...
March 12, 2014 — Privately held On-X Life Technologies Inc. (On-X LTI) launched its European marketing campaign for the ...
March 6, 2014 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced the successful completion of the first three human implants of its ...
March 6, 2014 — At age 88, Lena M. Smith visited her doctor, Larry Hunt, M.D., at the University of Alabama at ...
March 5, 2014 — Boston Scientific’s Lotus transcatheter aortic valve repair (TAVR) system was implanted for the first ...
February 27, 2014 — A new imaging technique for measuring blood flow in the heart and vessels can diagnose bicuspid ...
February 18, 2014 — Neovasc Inc. announced that a first-in-human implantation of its Tiara transcatheter mitral valve wa ...
April 07, 2014