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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Your patient is too sick for open-heart surgery, their aortic valve opening is narrowing, and without intervention, the ...
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December 12, 2013 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices ...
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December 4, 2013 — Sidra Medical and Research Center, a specialty women's and children's hospital in Qatar, announced ...
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December 4, 2013 — The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), whose Data and Clinical Coordinating Center is at ...
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December 4, 2013 — Four cardiovascular professional societies released an overview of transcatheter therapies for mitral ...
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November 21, 2013 — Data from a national registry developed to track patient safety and real-world outcomes finds that ...

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November 20, 2013 — Neovasc Inc. reported the results from its COSIRA (coronary sinus reducer for treatment of ...
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November 19, 2013 — AtriCure Inc., a developer of solutions to treat atrial fibrillation, announced the U.S. Food and ...
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November 18, 2013 — A German court ordered Nov. 14 the discontinuation of a prior court ruling that prohibited Medtronic ...
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November 18, 2013 — The first two commercial implants of the Boston Scientific Lotus Valve System have taken place in a ...
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November 15, 2013 – Neovasc Inc. announced that the first patent covering the company's innovative Tiara transcatheter m ...

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November 11, 2013 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a Class I recall of Baylis Medical’s TorFlex ...
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By Dave Fornell, DAIC editor


The Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) ...

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November 8, 2013 – According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the anticipated Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

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