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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).
October 15, 2010 – An investigational trial of Medtronic’s CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve has been approved ...
October 5, 2010 – Edwards Lifesciences has opened a new 300,000-square-foot facility in Draper, Utah, allowing the ...
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
October 4, 2010 – Germany will reimburse patients who have a left atrial appendage closure procedure in 2011. The ...
September 29, 2010 – Physicians from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute will lead a clinical trial evaluating ...
Transcatheter valve therapies were among the hottest topics at the 2010 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics ...
September 28, 2010 – The Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2010 symposium featured a live case ...
September 24, 2010 - The New England Journal of Medicine has published the results of from a trial looking at the ...
September 24, 2010 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted conditional approval to start a ...
September 23, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conditionally approved the first part of a ...
September 23, 2010 - The first-in-human procedure to use ultrasound therapy to treat mitral regurgitation (MR) has ...
September 23, 2010 – The first consensus document for treating structural heart disease has been published by the ...
September 20, 2010 - A phase 1 porcine model study demonstrated that it is possible to successfully and ...
September 17, 2010 - An aortic valve has been successfully implanted in the acute porcine model by Transcatheter ...
September 16, 2010 – A new collection of software applications for structural heart treatment under angiography ...