Heart Hospital of Austin Opens Heart Valve Clinic, Among First Sites in U.S. to Receive New Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Replacement Technology Since FDA Approval

1/24/2012 3:16:24 PM

On January 24, Heart Hospital of Austin opened a Heart Valve Clinic, the first of its kind in the region. The clinic gives new hope to patients with severe aortic stenosis who were previously considered “inoperable,” delivering a multidisciplinary approach to evaluating such cases. Additionally, interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons at the clinic will collaboratively identify patients who may be eligible for a new, catheter-based valve replacement procedure, known as trans-catheter aortic valve replacement, instead of traditional, open-chest procedures. Heart Hospital of Austin is among the first sites in the nation to receive this trans-catheter aortic valve replacement technology since it was approved by the FDA in November 2011.

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Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David's Medical Center First in Central Texas and Among First in the World
To Perform Robotic Cardiac Ablation for Cardiac Arrhythmia

1/20/2012 7:32:58 PM

On Dec. 22, 2011, the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (TCAI) at St. David’s Medical Center completed its first robotic cardiac ablation procedure with the Stereotaxis Epoch™ Platform for complex cardiac arrhythmias. The Epoch Platform is a state-of-the-art computer-controlled robotic navigation system that allows physicians to safely navigate in a patient’s heart to ablate diseased tissue that is causing cardiac arrhythmias or irregular heartbeats. TCAI is the first facility in Central Texas and is among the first in the world to use this technology.

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