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6666861 |
Atrial appendage remodeling device and method
The invention describes a method of treating a patient's left atrial appendage through the pericardial space. The process takes place through the pericardial space from an access point outside the...
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6652447 |
Method of controlling an implantable pump system
A controller module for an implantable pump system which has a pump motor includes a processor, a motor controller electrically coupled to the processor and adapted to power the pump motor such...
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6641612 |
Ambulatory blood pump
A blood pump intended to be carried by a freely moving patient uses perpendicular magnetic and electrical fields to propel blood. A rod mounted coaxially inside a tube has electrodes in blood...
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6626821 |
Flow-balanced cardiac wrap
A flow-balanced cardiac wrap that assists the right and left ventricles of an affected heart to differing, and adjustable degrees is provided. The wrap generally applies an assist to the left...
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6622730 |
Device for marking and aligning positions on the heart
According to the present invention, an alignment device for marking and aligning selected positions on a heart's surface is provided. The device includes a handle assembly having upper and lower...
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6620121 |
Pulse wave generator for cardiopulmonary bypass and extracorporeal oxygenation apparatus
The present invention is a cardiopulmonary bypass and extracorporeal oxygenation apparatus that provides a pulsatile blood flow output. The apparatus comprises: a primary pump, which primary pump...
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6620095 |
Cradle-assisted myocardial repair and treatment
A cradle apparatus for myocardial repair and treatment includes a cradle having a base end and an open end. A lumen extends to a location which is at or near the cradle's base end. A plurality of...
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6616598 |
Docking station for a transportable device
A mounting device for securing transport patient connected equipment, specifically an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP), in the typically crowded medical transport vehicle. An engagement stud on the...
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6616596 |
Cardiac assistance systems having multiple layers of inflatable elements
A unified, non-blood contacting, implantable heart assist system surrounds the natural heart and provides circumferential contraction in synchrony with the heart's natural contractions. The pumping...
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6604529 |
External electromagnetic system for assisting systolic and diastolic ventricular function, and method therefor
A method of aiding the compression and relaxation of a heart chamber using ferromagnetic and diamagnetic pellets inserted into the anterior and posterior walls of the chamber is provided. The...
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6605032 |
Implantable pump system
A controller module for an implantable pump system which has a pump motor includes a processor, a motor controller electrically coupled to the processor and adapted to power the pump motor such...
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6602182 |
Cardiac assistance systems having multiple fluid plenums
A unified, non-blood contacting, implantable heart assist system surrounds the natural heart and provides circumferential contraction in synchrony with the heart's natural contractions. The pumping...
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6592620 |
Power system for an implantable heart pump
A power system for an implantable heart pump is provided. The system includes two batteries, a microprocessor controller, two motor drivers, a multiplexer, two stators and a TET coil. During normal...
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6592619 |
Heart wall actuation device for the natural heart
An actuation system for assisting the operation of the natural heart comprises a framework for interfacing with a natural heart, through the wall of the heart, which includes an internal framework...
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6585635 |
Method and system for pericardial modification
The invention adapts the pericardium for use as a pump bladder having a pump cavity formed by at least a portion of the pericardial space between the parietal pericardium and the visceral...
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6572534 |
System and method for implanting a cardiac wrap
A system and method for implanting a wrap on a patient's heart or other organ provides a wrap having finger-engagement members typically defining loops that encompass all or a substantial portion...
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6572529 |
Intrapericardial assist method
A surgical method for assisting cardiac function utilizes a balloon initially in a collapsed configuration. The balloon is inserted into an intrapericardial space about a patient's heart and is...
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6569079 |
Ventricular assist device, accessory therefore and method of use
A device comprises a bag with associated actuator means which can be selectively activated to permit the expansion of the bag and its consequent filing with a body of blood which flows towards the...
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6567699 |
Defibrillating cardiac constraint
A device for treating cardiac disease of a heart includes a jacket of flexible material defining a volume between an open upper end and a lower end. The jacket is dimensioned for an apex of the...
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6561969 |
Method of reducing the volume of the heart
Disclosed is a closure catheter, and methods for reducing the volume of a body cavity such as a vessel, or a portion of the heart. The closure catheter includes a plurality of deployable tissue...
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6544167 |
Ventricular restoration patch
A ventricular patch to restore the ventricular architecture of the heart includes a sheet of biocompatible material having a generally oval configuration, and a continuous ring fixed to the sheet....
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6540659 |
Cardiac assistance systems having bi-directional pumping elements
A unified, non-blood contacting, implantable heart assist system surrounds the natural heart and provides circumferential contraction in synchrony with the heart's natural contractions. The pumping...
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6537315 |
Auxiliary artificial heart of an embedded type
An artificial heart has a driving section, a nozzle section, a pump section for insertion into a ventricle of a human heart, and a sealing section forming a seal for a driving shaft extending from...
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6537198 |
Splint assembly for improving cardiac function in hearts, and method for implanting the splint assembly
A splint assembly for placement transverse a heart chamber to reduce the heart chamber radius and improve cardiac function has a tension member formed of a braided cable with a covering. A fixed...
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6533716 |
Self-deploying axial-flow pump introduced intravascularly for temporary cardiac support
The axial-flow pump for introduction through the vascular system of a patient has a flexible compressible tube ( 1 ) forming the pump housing. A radially compressible rotor ( 7 ) is located within...
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6530876 |
Supplemental heart pump methods and systems for supplementing blood through the heart
Systems and methods of supplementing blood flow from the heart of a patient involving superficial, non-invasive procedures. In one general method, a first conduit is directed into the left side of...
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6527698 |
Active left-right flow control in a two chamber cardiac prosthesis
A biventricular cardiac prosthesis has a flow balance control system to balance blood flow through the left and right sides of the prosthesis to maintain a patient's left atrial pressure within...
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6520904 |
Device and method for restructuring heart chamber geometry
A geometric reconfiguration assembly for the natural heart having a collar configured for surrounding the natural heart. The collar can include a plurality of supports configured for positioning on...
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6514226 |
Method and apparatus for treatment of congestive heart failure by improving perfusion of the kidney
A method for treating congestive heart failure (CHF) has been developed that restores kidney renal functions by artificially perfusion of at least one kidney. The kidney is perfused with the...
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6511413 |
Single cannula ventricular-assist method and apparatus
A system for assisting the failing ventricle, which utilizes a single blood displacement chamber and a single cannula. The cannula is inserted into the failing ventricle cavity and is connected to...
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6508787 |
System for actively supporting the flow of body fluids
The present invention relates to a device for actively supporting the flow of body fluids, comprising an artificial flow guide system ( 10 ) with an operational area into which a pump ( 1 ) is...
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6494825 |
System for stress relieving the heart muscle and for controlling heart function
An apparatus and method for relieving stress on a heart muscle tissue in a wall of a heart having a chamber. A plurality of biocompatible and implantable elongate strips are configured to be...
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6471633 |
Mechanical auxillary ventricle blood pump with reduced waist portion
An apparatus adapted to be inflated and deflated in response to selective communication with a source of pressurized fluid includes a bladder having a semi-rigid shell body portion and a relatively...
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6468041 |
Magnetically levitated apparatus
There is provided a magnetically levitated apparatus wherein an impeller has one side supported by an electromagnet and the other side supported and magnetically levitated by an attractive force...
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6461351 |
Energy delivery system and method for performing myocardial revascularization
An energy delivery system for performing myocardial revascularization on a heart of a patient including an energy pulse source that produces energy pulses sufficient to create channels in a wall of...
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6450942 |
Method for reducing heart loads in mammals
A method and apparatus for treating a mammal or other living organism having a heart and a peripheral vascular system to achieve a heart load reduction, said organism having a pulse rate and a...
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6439237 |
Anterior segment coronary restoration apparatus and method
The symptoms of congenital heart failure are addressed in this surgical procedure for mounting a patch in the ventricle of the heart to reduce ventricular volume. Placement of the patch is...
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6436027 |
Hydrodynamic blood bearing
A hydrodynamic blood bearing includes a piston disposed coaxially in a housing bore. The piston includes a cylindrical outer surface journal spaced from the bore to define a first radial gap for...
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6432039 |
Methods and apparatus for reinforcement of the heart ventricles
A device for treating heart disorders, and particularly cardiomyopathy. The device is comprised of a compliant containment structure shaped in a configuration such that it surrounds and encases the...
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6428464 |
Implantable heart assist system
An extracardiac pumping for supplementing the circulation of blood through a patient without any component thereof being connected to the patient's heart, and method of using same. The extracardiac...
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6408205 |
System for delivering mechanical waves
There is provided an implanted system and method for delivering subsonic mechanical waves to one or more selected patient areas, said areas including the patient's heart and/or lungs. The...
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6398715 |
Apparatus for assisting systolic and diastolic cardiac function
The present invention pertains to an apparatus for assisting a patient's heart operation. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for expanding and collapsing a right ventricle free wall of a heart of...
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6398714 |
Cardiac assist catheter pump and catheter and fitting for use therein
A cardiac assist catheter pump includes a displacement structure and a catheter. The catheter has an inlet in its distal end portion and an outlet spaced from the distal end portion. The...
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6397843 |
Electrical and manual pressing device of automated air blowing for first-aid cardiopulmonary resuscitation
An electrical and manual pressing device of automatic air blowing for first-aid cardiopulmonary resuscitation comprises pressing unit, an air storage tank, a control chamber, air levels, and a...
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6387042 |
Apparatus aiding physiologic systolic and diastolic dynamics of cardiac cavities
Apparatus aiding physiologic systolic and diastolic dynamics of heart cavities designed to assist the systolic contraction of the heart ventricles, and to simultaneously or alternatively regulating...
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6375607 |
Magnetically suspended fluid pump and control system
A blood pump for assisting a heart is provided having a stator and a rotor. The rotor is magnetically radially supported creating a suspension gap between the stator and the rotor. The rotor can be...
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6361519 |
Mesh tip myocardial implant
A method and apparatus for performing coronary artery bypass surgery establishes a channel leading directly from a chamber of a heart into a coronary artery. The coronary artery bypass procedure...
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6354814 |
Device for conversion of a unidirectional rotational motion into reciprocating back and forth motion and pump device comprising same
The inventive device consists of a disk which can be rotated around a central axis, a wobble pin which is mounted in the disk so that can rotate around an axis which is arranged at an angle in...
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6350248 |
Expandable myocardial implant
A method and apparatus for performing coronary artery bypass surgery establishes a channel leading directly from a chamber of a heart into a coronary artery. The coronary artery bypass procedure...
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6346071 |
Inflow conduit assembly for a ventricular assist device
An inflow conduit assembly for conducting blood from a ventricle to a Ventricular Assistance Device (VAD) is provided. The assembly includes a rigid tube including an angled heart engaging end for...
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