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).

The Amplatzer transcatheter occluder can help seal holes in heart.
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July 20, 2010 — A $5 million loan was granted for the development of a new percutaneous mitral valve repair device ...

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July 9, 2010 – W. L. Gore and Associates announced today that they are confident in the design and anticipated ...

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June 28, 2010 – AGA Medical has been denied the right to appeal a decision in a United Kingdom patent case ...

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June 17, 2010 – AGA Medical Holdings Inc. this week announced first patient enrollment in the feasibility phase of ...

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June 16, 2010 – A new surgical device for excluding the left atrial appendage has received clearance from the U.S ...

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June 4, 2010 – One-year mortality rates were very low for 1,038 high-risk patients, many of whom were too sick to ...

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May 27, 2010 – New European data from five national clinical registries presented this week at EuroPCR in Paris ...

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May 21, 2010 – The first successful transcatheter mitral valve implantation (TMVI) for a new mitral valve ...

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May 20, 2010 – An aortic embolic protection device, which acts as a protective shield to reduce the incidence of ...

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May 10, 2010 – A catheter-based procedure is providing relief to patients who suffer from shortness of breath and ...

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April 2, 2010 – A federal jury yesterday found Medtronic’s CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve willfully ...

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March 29, 2010 – A lawsuit was settled between Medtronic and AGA Medical Corp. for the alleged infringement of ...

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March 25, 2010 – The FDA this week granted permission for a conditional investigational device exemption (IDE) to ...

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March 16, 2010 — Several new initiatives in a robust international clinical program for a transcatheter aortic ...

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