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).

Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Rebecca Hahn, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional echocardiography, Columbia University Medical ...

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Videos | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

This is an example of the a mitral valve with regurgitation imaged with 3-D echocardiography using the Siemens SC2000 ...

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Videos | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

This is a demonstration of the the Philips TrueVue photo-realistic rendering and lighting source technology. This ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

June 26, 2018 — MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute physicians participating in a clinical trial have become the first in ...

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Technology

June 15, 2018 — LivaNova PLC announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Memo ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

June 13, 2018 — Henry Ford Hospital is one of 17 U.S. trial sites using a catheter-based procedure approved in Europe to ...

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News | Embolic Protection Devices

June 7, 2018 — The first clinical cases have been completed where the Emboliner Embolic Protection Catheter was used ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

June 1, 2018 –  Use of the Abbott Portico transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) therapy was associated with ...

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EuroPCR conference live case presentation. PCR late-breaking trials.
Feature | EuroPCR

Here are the late-breaking trials and other key study presentations from the 2018 EuroPCR conference. This is the annual ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

May 25, 2018 — Abbott announced favorable outcomes from the first 100 patients treated in a global study of its Tendyne ...

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A slide image from Reddy's presntation at Heart Rhythm 2018, showing thrombus formation on the face of a Watchman LAA Occluder device in an echo image. #HRS2018
Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

May 18, 2018 — Left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) with the transcatheter Watchman device prevents thromboembolism from ...

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A 3-D printed aortic root with an simulated implant of an Edwards Sapien TAVR valve. New clinical data points to length-of-stay as a new predictor of outcomes in TAVR patients. Image from Henry Ford Hospital.
Feature | Heart Valve Technology

May 14, 2018 – A new study finds patients who stay in the hospital for more than 72 hours when undergoing trans-femoral ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

May 14, 2018 – A new study examines the effectiveness of 3-D printing technology and computer modeling to predict ...

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News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

May 14, 2018 — The opioid drug epidemic is impacting cardiology, with a new study finding the number of patients ...

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News | Heart Failure

May 14, 2018 — Ancora Heart Inc. announced the expansion of the company’s U.S. feasibility study to evaluate the ...

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