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).

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Feature | Heart Valve Technology

April 7, 2016 — New data demonstrates that for aortic stenosis patients at intermediate-risk for open-heart surgery, tra ...

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Blog | Heart Valve Technology

There has been a lot of conjecture that transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) may one day replace open-heart ...

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News | Cardiovascular Surgery

March 31, 2016 — Patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve repair or replacement (mini-MVR) have similar ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 30, 2016 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. announced European commercial market launch of the DirecTrack Delivery System ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 29, 2016 — NeoChord Inc. announced that David H. Adams, M.D., and Michael A. Borger, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as ...

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March 28, 2016 — V-Wave Ltd, maker of an investigational interatrial shunt device for patients with advanced heart ...

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DAIC readers chose the following stories as the most popular content in 2015, based on website analytics. The list is ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 18, 2016 — CorMatrix Cardiovascular Inc. announced treatment of the first patient to receive their tissue ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

March 16, 2016 — The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J., is one of 15 U.S. sites currently enrolling patients in a ...

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While there are constant advances in cardiac technologies, it is rare when one of these new ideas may rapidly challenge ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 10, 2016 — 4Tech Inc. announced that it has secured $29 million in an oversubscribed series B financing, which ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

March 7, 2016 — Women undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) have better survival rates than men at ...

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March 7, 2016 — Medtronic plc announced the first patients enrolled in the Evolut R FORWARD Clinical Study to evaluate ...

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News | Congenital Heart

March 1, 2016 — Last August, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) cardiologists confirmed the heart of a 27-week-old ...

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Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to expand use of the Edwards ...

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