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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July 21, 2011 – In a closely watched move viewed as a big step toward a paradigm shift in how heart valves are repaired ...

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As part of its efforts to expand integration of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) image guidance with cath lab treatment ...

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June 29, 2011 – For the first time, human blood vessels grown in a laboratory from donor skin cells have been ...

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If approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) later this summer, transcatheter valve therapy (TVT) – an ...

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June 21, 2011 – The Heart Hospital of Austin, a physician-led hospital specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of ...

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June 21, 2011 – The St. Francis Heart Center in Indianapolis, Ind. announced that it has performed the first post-U.S ...

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June 14, 2011 – The first successful Chinese implants of the Edwards SAPIEN XT valve were performed in May.

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June 10, 2011 - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel is scheduled to review Edwards Lifesciences’ ...

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June 3, 2011 -- Maquet Cardiovascular announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company ...

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May 23, 2011 - A presentation about transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) at EuroPCR 2011 confirmed positive ...

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May 23, 2011 -- Boston Scientific Corporation announced results from a clinical study evaluating the use of its Watchman ...

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May 20, 2011 - Edwards Lifesciences Corporation announced that clinicians continued to achieve successful one-year ...

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Stem Cells might be used to restore heart function by replacing the dead heart muscle following myocardial infarctions.
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For years researchers have experimented with stem cells in attempts to regrow myocardium in patients who suffer ...

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Feature | Stem Cell Therapies | Thomas F. Deering, M.D., FACC, FACP, FHRS, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta

Over the last decade, cardiac stem cell therapy has shown tantalizing but as yet unrealized potential as a treatment for ...

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May 19, 2011 – New clinical data presented today at EuroPCR 2011 demonstrate immediate and long-term health-related ...

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