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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September 12, 2014 — Medtronic Inc. announced the first U.S. implants in the CoreValve Evolut R clinical study, which ...

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September 9, 2014 — Claret Medical Inc. vascular and cardiac surgery procedures, announced that it has entered into an ...

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After several years of trials and increasing clinical use, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has reached a ...

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September 4, 2014 — Medtronic announced CE mark for the 23 mm CoreValve Evolut R system for transcatheter aortic valve ...

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September 4, 2014 – For the first time in the United States, doctors at Henry Ford Hospital used a minimally invasive ...

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August 29, 2014 — Direct Flow Medical announced it received CE mark for a 23 mm valve as part of its Direct Flow Medical ...

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August 28, 2014 — The University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center is the first heart center in the nation to ...

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August 27, 2014 — Philips Healthcare announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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August 15, 2014 — Mardil Medical announced earlier this year the first-in-human implants using the VenTouch ventricular ...

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August 12, 2014 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) took action to improve access to Abbott’s MitraClip system ...

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August 5, 2014 — A survey, published online in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, of 13,860 patients who ...

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August 1, 2014 — Sorin Group received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Solo Smart Aortic ...

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August 1, 2014 — Occlutech announced that it has successfully obtained a ruling by the U.K. Patents Court in the High ...

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July 30, 2014 — New research from Penn Medicine shows that incisionless transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) ...

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July 30, 2014 — Following a heart attack, many heart failure patients suffer from enlargement of their left ventricle ...

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