April 11, 2011 — The following is a roundup of key news and trial data that came out of the American College of ...
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).

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 ...
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
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 ...

April 5, 2011 – Death rates are similar at one year for a catheter-based aortic valve replacement procedure and ...
April 4, 2011 – A new system for treating mitral regurgitation (MR) has been launched in Australia. The MitraClip ...
March 29, 2011 – One-year outcomes from Cohort A of the PARTNER trial will be presented April 3 at the American ...

In January the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a big modifcation to the CoreValve U.S. pivotal ...
March 15, 2011 – A new tricuspid ring for the treatment of tricuspid valve disease is approved for use in the ...
March 14, 2011 – Expanding its transcatheter valve accessories with the addition of an aortic embolic protection ...
March 14, 2011 – Sorin Group has reached a major milestone with the 100,000th MitroFlow Aortic Pericardial Heart ...
March 4, 2011 - Occlutech GmbH received a favorable court ruling in Stockholm, Sweden in the ongoing patent ...
Boston Scientific has completed its acquisition of Atritech. The completion of the transaction follows the signing of a ...
March 1, 2011 – A bioprosthetic heart valve has demonstrated positive performance at 12 years, according to a ...