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).

News | Heart Valve Technology

September 9, 2016 — Six-month preclinical data from trials of a Xeltis bioabsorbable aortic conduit were presented at ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

September 2, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced the start of the St. Jude Medical Amplatzer Amulet IDE trial of the ...

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News | Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapies

September 1, 2016 — First outcome results from the GLORIA-AF Registry show that treatment with Pradaxa (dabigatran ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

August 26, 2016 — This week, PinnacleHealth, Harrisburg, Pa., became the first hospital in the country to implant the ...

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News | Structural Heart

August 25, 2016 — People with a family member who had an aortic dissection — a spontaneous tear in one of the body’s ...

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Sapien III, Sapien 3, PARTNER III, FDA approval, expanded indication, intermediate risk patients
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell

August 18, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indications for both the Edwards ...

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Videos | Heart Valve Technology

This video, provided by Edwards Lifesciences, demonstrates the Intuity Elite surgical aortic valve, which uses a balloon ...

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Technology | Heart Valve Technology

August 15, 2016 – Edwards Lifesciences announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved of the advanced ...

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News | Structural Heart Occluders

August 8, 2016 — Updated recommendations from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) states that catheter-based closure ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

August 5, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has reassigned MitraClip transcatheter mitral ...

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August 5, 2016 — Here are the top 20 most popular current content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology ...

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CoreValve Evolut R, intermediate risk patients, european approval, CE mark
Feature | Heart Valve Technology

August 4, 2016 — Medtronic announced CE (Conformité Européenne) mark market clearnace for the self-expanding ...

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Watchman, left atrial appendage closure, LAA occluder
Feature | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders | Dave Fornell

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF or Afib) are high risk for stroke due to the formation of thrombus emboli in the ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

July 27, 2016 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced that Health Canada has approved the Edwards Sapien 3 transcatheter ...

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News | Heart Failure

July 22, 2016 — CardioKinetix Inc. announced this week that 500 patients have received the company’s Parachute ...

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