August 12, 2010 – A 52-year-old male heart failure patient in Krakow, Poland, became the first human to receive ...
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).
August 11, 2010 – New sizes of the SoloPath TransFemoral Endovascular Access Catheter were recently cleared by ...
August 11, 2010
August 9, 2010 – A merger is being finalized between Medtronic and cardiac surgery device maker ATS Medical. The ...
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Blog | Enterprise Imaging
As medical advancements continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in the field of structural heart ...
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Feature | Dave Fornell
In addition to the FDA-cleared Gore Helex and the AGA Amplatzer transcatheter devices for atrial septal defects ...
July 20, 2010
Feature | Structural Heart Occluders | Dave Fornell
(This article was updated with new information in June 2016) Transcatheter structural heart repair devices ...
July 20, 2010July 20, 2010 — A $5 million loan was granted for the development of a new percutaneous mitral valve repair device ...
July 20, 2010July 9, 2010 – W. L. Gore and Associates announced today that they are confident in the design and anticipated ...
July 09, 2010
June 28, 2010 – AGA Medical has been denied the right to appeal a decision in a United Kingdom patent case ...
June 27, 2010
June 17, 2010 – AGA Medical Holdings Inc. this week announced first patient enrollment in the feasibility phase of ...
June 17, 2010
June 16, 2010 – A new surgical device for excluding the left atrial appendage has received clearance from the U.S ...
June 16, 2010
June 4, 2010 – One-year mortality rates were very low for 1,038 high-risk patients, many of whom were too sick to ...
June 04, 2010
May 27, 2010 – New European data from five national clinical registries presented this week at EuroPCR in Paris ...
May 26, 2010
May 21, 2010 – The first successful transcatheter mitral valve implantation (TMVI) for a new mitral valve ...
May 21, 2010May 20, 2010 – An aortic embolic protection device, which acts as a protective shield to reduce the incidence of ...
May 20, 2010
May 10, 2010 – A catheter-based procedure is providing relief to patients who suffer from shortness of breath and ...
May 10, 2010