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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February 25, 2013 — The American Heart Association (AHA) is focusing its advocacy efforts across the Midwest on the use ...

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February 19, 2013 — CardioLogical Solutions is an emerging cardiovascular device company formed by the merger of ...

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February 13, 2013 — St. Jude Medical Inc announced the first patient implant of its 25 mm Portico Transcatheter Aortic ...

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February 13, 2013 — St. Jude Medical has issued a Class I recall for its Amplatzer TorqVue FX Delivery System used in ...

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Videos | Structural Heart

This short cine loop shows a 3-D/4-D transesophegeal echo (TEE) view of a transcatheter Amplatzer closure device used to ...

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February 6, 2013 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that more than 500 organizations will ...

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Direct Flow Medical Transcatheter Aortic Valve System CE mark
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February 1, 2013 — Direct Flow Medical Inc. has received CE mark for its distinctive transcatheter aortic heart valve ...

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Amplatzer Amulet St. Jude Medical Left Atrial Appendage Occluders
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January 29, 2013 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced European CE mark approval of its Amplatzer Amulet Left Atrial ...

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Top stories of 2012 in cardiology
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January 21, 2013 — A heart valve procedure intended to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis and individuals who ...

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CardioKinetics PARACHUTE IV Clinical Trial Heart Failure Treatments
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January 18, 2013 — CardioKinetix Inc. announced the enrollment of the first patients in PARACHUTE IV, the randomized ...

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January 16, 2013 — Open heart surgery may be a dying art, as new valve replacement techniques offer life-changing ...

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January 16, 2013 — CardioLogical Solutions, a new cardiovascular device company, announced it has initiated operations ...

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January 8, 2013 — CardiAQValve Technologies Inc. received $37.3 million in funding in its second round of equity ...

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January 3, 2013 — BioVentrix announced it has received CE mark for its Revivent myocardial anchoring system, which makes ...

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