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).

Feature | Dave Fornell
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2013 offers many new insights ...
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Technology | Dave Fornell
January 17, 2014 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted U.S. market approval for Medtronic’s self ...
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Medtronic, corevalve, edwards, litigation, TAVR, TAVI
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In a move that calls into question the future of transcatheter valve competition in the United States, a jury in the ...
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January 14, 2014 — Edwards Lifesciences Corp. announced it received investigational device exemption (IDE) approval from ...
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January 14, 2014 — MediValve Ltd. announced that it has received clearance of a Pre-Marketing Notification Application ...
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January 9, 2014 — Highly invasive therapies are challenging due to the inability to quickly and safely secure devices ...
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ACC, iPad cardiology apps
Feature | Dave Fornell
DAIC readers chose the following stories as the most popular content in 2013, based on website analytics. The list is ...
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January 2, 2014 — St. Jude Medical Inc. received European CE mark approval for its 25 mm Portico Transcatheter Aortic He ...
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December 24, 2013 — Clinical trials for a promising new class of cholesterol-lowering medications, a long-awaited repair ...
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Feature | Peter Fail, M.D., FACC, FACP
Your patient is too sick for open-heart surgery, their aortic valve opening is narrowing, and without intervention, the ...
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Watchman, LAA occluder, atrial fibrillation
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December 12, 2013 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel of the Medical Devices ...
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December 9, 2013 — Seroj Avoyan is a world class Armenian Dhol drum virtuoso whose fingers move with such dexterity they ...
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December 4, 2013 — Sidra Medical and Research Center, a specialty women's and children's hospital in Qatar, announced ...
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December 4, 2013 — The Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), whose Data and Clinical Coordinating Center is at ...
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December 4, 2013 — Four cardiovascular professional societies released an overview of transcatheter therapies for mitral ...
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