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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January 30, 2012 — Medtronic, Inc. announced the completion of patient enrollment in the extreme risk study in its ...

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January 30, 2012 - The 2012 American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting in Chicago, March 24-26, includes five sessions ...

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January 26, 2012 — Heart Hospital of Austin opened a heart valve clinic, the first of its kind in the region. The clinic ...

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January 25, 2012 — Which Medical Device announced the winner of its Device of the Year Award 2011 in the cardiology ...

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January 25, 2012 — Terumo Cardiovascular Systems entered into an exclusive agreement with LAAx Inc. to distribute the ...

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January 17, 2012 – Terumo Americas Holding Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Terumo Corp., announced it acquired Onset ...

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January 4, 2012 – ECRI, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, listed ...

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January 3, 2012 – Ikaria Inc. announced it commenced its global development program, the PRESERVATION I clinical trial ...

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December 28, 2011 – Edwards Lifesciences announced two-year results of a pivotal clinical study of inoperable patients ...

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December 23, 2011 - Philips Healthcare said Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, Texas, is the first hospital in the ...

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Each year that I attend Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), I comb the event and its sessions looking ...

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Feature | Julie McLaughlin, Senior Analyst, Millennium Research Group

Transcatheter aortic valve repair (TAVR) — also commonly referred to as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) — ...

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Whitepapers | Samir Kapadia, Heart and Vascular Institute Cleveland

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72-year-old, male patient with previously placed bioprosthetic mitral valve.
 

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November 18, 2011 – Boston Scientific’s Watchman left atrial appendage (LAA) closure device has been implanted in the ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Each year that I attend Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), I comb the event and its sessions looking for ...

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