Structural heart disease refers to any non-coronary congenital or acquired cardiac defect in a broad sense. In a narrower sense, it refers to any type of non-coronary heart disease for which there are therapeutic percutaneous interventional or catheter-based options available.
Typical examples of structural heart disease include the following 1,2:
- congenital heart disease
- left atrial appendage thrombus in non-valvular atrial fibrillation
- left ventricular aneurysm
- valvular heart disease
- paravalvular leak
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Marfan syndrome
- other
History and etymology
The term structural heart disease was coined by the cardiologist Martin Leon in 1999 2 after such techniques have already existed for almost half a century 2.