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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June 10, 2013 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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June 3, 2013 — Medtronic Inc. announced it has received CE mark for valve-in-valve (VIV) procedures using the CoreValve ...

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May 30, 2013 — Cerebral function is the essence of quality of life. Its preservation throughout medical procedures is a ...

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May 30, 2013 — CardioKinetix Inc. announced the transmission of a live satellite feed of a clinical case using the cathe ...

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May 29, 2013 — The Lotus Valve, a second-generation transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) device, was ...

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May 28, 2013 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. said it met its primary endpoint in the fully-enrolled, 100-patient DISCOVER CE ...

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May 28, 2013 — CardioKinetix Inc. has announced the results of a meta-analysis study of the catheter-based Parachute ...

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May 24, 2013 — Neovasc Inc. reported positive animal data from its Tiara program for the transcatheter treatment of ...

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May 16, 2013 — Sorin Group has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Investigational Device ...

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Philips introduced CX50 xMatrix architecture designed to support advanced fluoro integration with the EchoNavigator system. It aligns TEE views with live fluoroscopy to enhance navigation in complex structural heart procedures. Transesophageal echo (TEE).
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The development of 3-D transesophageal echo (TEE) just a few years ago has enabled a new generation of interventional ...

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May 13, 2013 — Live demonstration, transmission or recording of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has been ...

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Boston Scientific Watchmen Left Atrial Appendage Closure Atrial Fibrillation
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May 13, 2013 — Boston Scientific reports that the four-year follow-up data from the PROTECT AF clinical trial demonstrat ...

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May 2, 2013 — Simbionix USA Corp. released various training modules for the Angio Mentor endovascular simulator.


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May 1, 2013 — InterValve Inc. announced that it has received 510(k) clearance to market the new V8 Aortic Valvuloplasty ...

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April 17, 2013 — Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) is a better way to measure annular size in patients with ...

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