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).

Boston Scientific Watchmen Left Atrial Appendage Closure Atrial Fibrillation
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March 19, 2013 — Boston Scientific reports preliminary data in the PREVAIL clinical trial met two out of three co ...

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March 13, 2013 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the first patient implant in a new pivotal trial evaluating the company ...

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March 7, 2013 — A newly identified genetic variant doubles the risk of calcium buildup in the heart’s aortic valve ...

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March 7, 2013 — Philips Healthcare announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

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Engager TAVI valve
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February 28, 2013 — Medtronic Inc. announced European CE (Conformité Européenne) mark approval for its Engager ...

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February 26, 2013 — Medtronic Inc. announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to conduct an ...

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February 25, 2013 — The American Heart Association (AHA) is focusing its advocacy efforts across the Midwest on the use ...

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February 19, 2013 — CardioLogical Solutions is an emerging cardiovascular device company formed by the merger of ...

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February 13, 2013 — St. Jude Medical Inc announced the first patient implant of its 25 mm Portico Transcatheter Aortic ...

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February 13, 2013 — St. Jude Medical has issued a Class I recall for its Amplatzer TorqVue FX Delivery System used in ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

This short cine loop shows a 3-D/4-D transesophegeal echo (TEE) view of a transcatheter Amplatzer closure device used to ...

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bundled payments, cardiology, CMS
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February 6, 2013 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that more than 500 organizations will ...

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Direct Flow Medical Transcatheter Aortic Valve System CE mark
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February 1, 2013 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. has received CE mark for its distinctive transcatheter aortic heart valve ...

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Amplatzer Amulet St. Jude Medical Left Atrial Appendage Occluders
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January 29, 2013 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced European CE mark approval of its Amplatzer Amulet Left Atrial ...

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Top stories of 2012 in cardiology
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To help identify trends and find out what DAIC readers are interested in, the magazine takes note of what they click on ...

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