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 Boston Scientific Lotus TAVR Valve
Feature | Heart Valve Technology

May 25, 2017 — Positive results from the REPRISE III clinical trial, presented at the annual EuroPCR Scientific Program ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

May 24, 2017 — Late-breaking data presented at EuroPCR 2017 demonstrating excellent clinical outcomes for transcatheter ...

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May 19, 2017 — Nearly one-quarter of patients with a mechanical heart valve say it disturbs their sleep, according to ...

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May 15, 2017 — For patients who undergo transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), their risk factors, not the type ...

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May 3, 2017 — The Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital (BHVH) transcatheter aortic valve ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

April 25, 2017 — AtriCure Inc. announced it has sold more than 100,000 AtriClip Left Atrial Appendage Exclusion System ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

April 20, 2017 — The Structural Heart Program at Princeton Baptist Medical Center, (Birmingham, Ala.) recently became ...

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April 20, 2017 — Mitral regurgitation can occur in up to 50 percent of patients with ischemic heart disease and even ...

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News | Embolic Protection Devices

April 11, 2017 — Through a new clinical trial, patients at Harrisburg, Pa.-based PinnacleHealth have access to an ...

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April 10, 2017 — Boston Scientific recently announced a $435 million cash deal to acquire Symetis SA, a privately-held ...

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News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound

April 3, 2017 — The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging ...

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Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

March 29, 2017 — For patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib), closing the area of the heart known as the left atrial ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

Michael Reardon, M.D., professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center ...

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microbleeds, brain bleeds caused by TAVR
Feature | Heart Valve Technology

March 22, 2017 — A quarter of the patients in a single-center study of 84 patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve ...

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Cardiogard embolic protection system for surgical valve reaplacement
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March 22, 2017 — Two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared embolic protection systems designed to remove ...

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