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

December 10, 2015 — Mitralign Inc. announced the first U.S. subject has been enrolled in the SCOUT Study using the ...

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News | Heart Failure

December 9, 2015 — BioVentrix Inc. has achieved the first implantation of its micro-anchor heart failure (HF) technology ...

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NHLBI, congenital heart disease, neurodevelopment issues, children, genetic link, Science
Feature | Congenital Heart

December 9, 2015 — Scientists have confirmed the role of a set of gene mutations in the development of congenital heart ...

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November 24, 2015 — Biosense Webster announced it has acquired Coherex Medical Inc., a privately held medical device ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

November 23, 2015 — NaviGate Cardiac Structures Inc. (NCSI) announced that a first-in-human implant of its catheter ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

November 20, 2015 — Boston Scientific announced the first implants of the Watchman FLX left atrial appendage closure ...

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Neovasc, Tiara, transcatheter mitral valve, TMVR
Feature | Heart Valve Technology | Dave Fornell

(This article was updated in June 2018)


The advent of transcatheter valve repair and replacement technologies is one ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

November 10, 2015 — PinnacleHealth CardioVascular Institute enrolled the first patient in Pennsylvania in a randomized ...

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Blog | Cath Lab

For the past few years, the focus of the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meetings has been on ...

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Videos | TCT

DAIC Editor Dave Fornell offers his choices for the most innovative new interventional cardiovascular technologies ...

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Videos | TCT

Tom Watson, clinical analyst for MDBuyLine, and DAIC Editor Dave Fornell discuss some of the new cardiovascular and ...

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News | Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluders

October 28, 2015 — SentreHeart Inc. announced that it has received CE Mark approval for the Lariat Surgical Left Atrial ...

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News | Heart Valve Technology

October 27, 2015 — A large observational registry found that initial aortic valve replacement (AVR) in asymptomatic ...

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October 22, 2015 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. announced one-year outcomes from the DISCOVER post-market study that ...

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