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).

Top Cardiovascular Stories 2012 Software CT angiography Heart Valve Repair
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December 28, 2012 — The past year in cardiology has continued to see progress and innovation in medicine. As the year ...

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December 27, 2012 — According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), approximately 80 percent of transcatheter aortic valve ...

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RealView's 3-D holographic projection of a heart
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The annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting brings many cutting-edge technologies to the ...

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December 20, 2012 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing healthcare professionals and the public ...

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The Abbott Mitraclip device for transcatheter treatment of mitral valve regurgitation.
Feature | William Kent, M.D., MSc, Patrick McCarthy, M.D., Edwin McGee, M.D., Chris Malaisrie, M.D.

For chronic mitral valve regurgitation (MR) from degenerative disease, conventional open surgery provides a durable ...

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December 13, 2012 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the first patient implant of its 23 mm Portico transcatheter aortic ...

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November 30, 2012 — TeraRecon previewed a flexible new pay-as-you-go billing option for its cloud and laptop users of ...

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Videos | Hybrid OR

Mercy Hospital in Chicago has developed a successful hybrid cath lab program where various specialties work together for ...

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November 20, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced the first treatment of a U.S. patient in its global, multicenter ...

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November 16, 2012 — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed an April 2010 federal jury decision that ...

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Videos | Stroke

The PC Trial data presented at TCT 2012 looked at transcather PFO closure vs. medical therapy in preventing cryptogenic ...

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Amplatzer Structural Heart Occulder Closure Device RESPECT Clinical Trial
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November 8, 2012 — A clinical trial indicates that using an investigational medical device to close a PFO, or “hole in ...

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Corindus CorPath robotic system
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Hospitals constantly try to predict what the future holds when planning new facilities and equipment purchases that will ...

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Videos | Structural Heart Occluders

Positive results from the RESPECT Trial of transcatheter patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure vs. standard medical therapy ...

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November 5, 2012 — Medtronic Inc. announced new findings from the Medtronic CoreValve ADVANCE Study for one-year ...

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