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).

Stem Cells might be used to restore heart function by replacing the dead heart muscle following myocardial infarctions.
Feature | Stem Cell Therapies | Dave Fornell

For years researchers have experimented with stem cells in attempts to regrow myocardium in patients who suffer ...

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Feature | Stem Cell Therapies | Thomas F. Deering, M.D., FACC, FACP, FHRS, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta

Over the last decade, cardiac stem cell therapy has shown tantalizing but as yet unrealized potential as a treatment for ...

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May 19, 2011 – New clinical data presented today at EuroPCR 2011 demonstrate immediate and long-term health-related ...

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May 18, 2011 - Jasbir Sra, M.D., and Tanvir Bajwa, M.D., are the first in Wisconsin to implant a new device in a patient ...

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May 16, 2011 - The German Supreme Court (BGH) declared a structural heart occluder patent case to be invalid. In the ...

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May 11, 2011 – In a sign that stem cell therapies for cardiovascular and peripheral artery disease may become mainstream ...

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Alcohol Injections Safer, Less Costly Than Surgery for Thickened Heart Muscle

May 10, 2011 – In a “real-world” test ...

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May 9, 2011 — John Webb, M.D., FSCAI, has traveled the globe teaching fellow physicians how to repair or replace faulty ...

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May 4, 2011 -- Two new clinical studies will use the Carillon Mitral Contour System, an investigational device for ...

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May 4, 2011 – Doctors should consider using catheterization as a treatment tool in addition to its established role in ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and conventional surgery in ...

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April 22, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Trifecta valve, by St. Jude Medical ...

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April 13, 2011 – Physician-researchers from the cardiac center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

April 11, 2011 — The following is a roundup of key news and trial data that came out of the American College of ...

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The transcatheter MitraClip mitral valve repair system continues to compare favorably with conventional open-heart ...

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