Medscape

ASD closure device erosions: Teacup tempest or tip of the iceberg?

Rochester, MN - A case report of a patient who suffered erosion of an Amplatzer septal-occluder device (St Jude Medical) six years after it was implanted, resulting in cardiac tamponade and ...
Medscape

Poststroke PFO Closure Helps Some, But Not All, Younger Adults

Patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure reduced the risk for recurrent ischemic stroke in most young and middle-aged adults with cryptogenic stroke but increased the risk for atrial fibrillation (AF) in a ...
RAPS

FDA to Keep Device Advisory Committee Chair Despite Conflict of Interest

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a waiver to allow the chairman of its Circulatory System Devices advisory panel to keep his position later this month despite a conflict of ...
RAPS

FDA Approves First PFO Occluder From St. Jude

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Minnesota-based St. Jude Medical’s Amplatzer PFO Occluder, which is intended to reduce the risk of a stroke for some patients who ...
TCTMD

TCT 305: The Landmark RESPECT Results Reaffirmed with Real-World Procedural and Safety Outcomes of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Closure Using the AmplatzerTM PFO and AmplatzerTM ...

TCT 679: Procedural, Discharge and Long-Term Clinical Outcomes in Intravascular ultrasonography vs Angiography guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Acute Coronary Syndrome: Findings from a ...
KXAN

NobleStitch™ Suture-Mediated PFO Closure Demonstrates Superior Long-Term Safety and Outcomes in Largest Cohort to Date

While other device-based closures have demonstrated notable rates of atrial fibrillation (5.7–6.6%) and device-related adverse events, the NobleStitch™ system's fully suture-mediated approach ...
TCTMD

TCT 1362: Peri-Device Leak After Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure and Recurrent Ischemic Stroke: Percutaneous Leak Closure With Amplatzer PFO Occluder

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