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).

hybrid OR, hybrid cath lab
Feature | Hybrid OR | Dave Fornell

One of the biggest trends is the creation of hybrid operating rooms (ORs) that bring together the best of both surgical ...

Home September 21, 2011
Home
News

September 15, 2011 – The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced the late breaking trials and first ...

Home September 16, 2011
Home
News

September 12, 2011 — Cardiovascular market research firm Zacks Equity Research released a new report discussing high ...

Home September 12, 2011
Home
Feature

August 30, 2011 – Results from a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2011 show that ...

Home August 30, 2011
Home
Aortic valve stenosis (intraoperatively)
Feature | By Anke Opitz, M.D.

August 30, 2011 – Single center data of the German Heart Centre in Munich demonstrate a sustained improvement of ...

Home August 30, 2011
Home
News

August 29, 2011 — An observational study demonstrates the percutaneous catheter-based MitraClip treatment improves ...

Home August 29, 2011
Home
Feature

August 25, 2011 – Transcatheter structural heart occluder maker Occlutech said this week it closed a 15 million Euro ...

Home August 25, 2011
Home
News

August 19, 2011 - Neovasc Inc. accomplished $4.7 million in financing to complete the COSIRA clinical trial for the ...

Home August 19, 2011
Home
News

August 8, 2011 – Edwards Lifesciences announced the global launch of the Carpentier-Edwards Physio Tricuspid ...

Home August 08, 2011
Home
Feature | Dave Fornell

July 21, 2011 – In a closely watched move viewed as a big step toward a paradigm shift in how heart valves are repaired ...

Home October 25, 2011
Home
Feature | Dave Fornell

As part of its efforts to expand integration of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) image guidance with cath lab treatment ...

Home July 15, 2011
Home
News

June 29, 2011 – For the first time, human blood vessels grown in a laboratory from donor skin cells have been ...

Home June 29, 2011
Home
News

If approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later this summer, transcatheter valve therapy (TVT) – an ...

Home June 27, 2011
Home
News

 

June 21, 2011 – The Heart Hospital of Austin, a physician-led hospital specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of ...

Home June 21, 2011
Home
News

June 21, 2011 – The St. Francis Heart Center in Indianapolis, Ind. announced that it has performed the first post-U.S ...

Home June 21, 2011
Home
Subscribe Now