May 18, 2011 - Jasbir Sra, M.D., and Tanvir Bajwa, M.D., are the first in Wisconsin to implant a new device in a patient ...
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).
May 16, 2011 - The German Supreme Court (BGH) declared a structural heart occluder patent case to be invalid. In the ...
May 11, 2011 – In a sign that stem cell therapies for cardiovascular and peripheral artery disease may become mainstream ...
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
Alcohol Injections Safer, Less Costly Than Surgery for Thickened Heart Muscle
May 10, 2011 – In a “real-world” test ...
May 9, 2011 — John Webb, M.D., FSCAI, has traveled the globe teaching fellow physicians how to repair or replace faulty ...
May 4, 2011 -- Two new clinical studies will use the Carillon Mitral Contour System, an investigational device for ...
May 4, 2011 – Doctors should consider using catheterization as a treatment tool in addition to its established role in ...
Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and conventional surgery in ...
April 22, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Trifecta valve, by St. Jude Medical ...
April 13, 2011 – Physician-researchers from the cardiac center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ...
April 11, 2011 — The following is a roundup of key news and trial data that came out of the American College of ...
The transcatheter MitraClip mitral valve repair system continues to compare favorably with conventional open-heart ...
A U.S.-Egyptian research team has uncovered the earliest documented case of coronary atherosclerosis in a ...
April 6, 2011 – Data from the EVEREST II study show that patients with significant mitral regurgitation (MR) ...
April 6, 2011 – Development of a novel embolic protection device designed for use during transcatheter aortic ...