June 14, 2011 – The first successful Chinese implants of the Edwards SAPIEN XT valve were performed in May.
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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).
June 10, 2011 - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel is scheduled to review Edwards Lifesciences’ ...
June 3, 2011 -- Maquet Cardiovascular announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company ...
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
May 23, 2011 - A presentation about transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) at EuroPCR 2011 confirmed positive ...
May 23, 2011 -- Boston Scientific Corporation announced results from a clinical study evaluating the use of its Watchman ...
May 20, 2011 - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced that clinicians continued to achieve successful one-year ...

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

Over the last decade, cardiac stem cell therapy has shown tantalizing but as yet unrealized potential as a treatment for ...
May 19, 2011 – New clinical data presented today at EuroPCR 2011 demonstrate immediate and long-term health-related ...
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 ...
May 16, 2011 - The German Supreme Court (BGH) declared a structural heart occluder patent case to be invalid. In the ...

May 11, 2011 – In a sign that stem cell therapies for cardiovascular and peripheral artery disease may become mainstream ...
Alcohol Injections Safer, Less Costly Than Surgery for Thickened Heart Muscle
May 10, 2011 – In a “real-world” test ...
May 9, 2011 — John Webb, M.D., FSCAI, has traveled the globe teaching fellow physicians how to repair or replace faulty ...
May 4, 2011 -- Two new clinical studies will use the Carillon Mitral Contour System, an investigational device for ...