May 4, 2011 -- Two new clinical studies will use the Carillon Mitral Contour System, an investigational device for ...
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).
May 4, 2011 – Doctors should consider using catheterization as a treatment tool in addition to its established role in ...
Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and conventional surgery in ...
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
April 22, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Trifecta valve, by St. Jude Medical ...
April 13, 2011 – Physician-researchers from the cardiac center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ...

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

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

A U.S.-Egyptian research team has uncovered the earliest documented case of coronary atherosclerosis in a ...
April 6, 2011 – Data from the EVEREST II study show that patients with significant mitral regurgitation (MR) ...
April 6, 2011 – Development of a novel embolic protection device designed for use during transcatheter aortic ...

April 5, 2011 – Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and ...
April 4, 2011 – A new system for treating mitral regurgitation (MR) has been launched in Australia. The MitraClip ...
March 29, 2011 – One-year outcomes from Cohort A of the PARTNER trial will be presented April 3 at the American ...

In January the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a big modifcation to the CoreValve U.S. pivotal ...
March 15, 2011 – A new tricuspid ring for the treatment of tricuspid valve disease is approved for use in the ...