Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080243065 | LUMEN REENTRY DEVICES AND METHODS - A method including introducing a catheter between two layers of a wall of a body lumen, the catheter including a balloon disposed at a distal end thereof, the catheter being formed with a first lumen through the balloon for passing therethrough a guidewire and a second lumen for inflation and deflation of the balloon, and expanding the balloon so that a distal portion of the first lumen that passes through the balloon is bent with respect to a portion of the first lumen proximal to the balloon and is directed towards the body lumen. | 10-02-2008 |
20080243067 | LUMEN REENTRY DEVICES AND METHODS - A device, such as for use with lumen reentry, including a catheter including a balloon disposed at a distal end thereof, the catheter being formed with a first lumen through the balloon for passing therethrough a guidewire and a second lumen for inflation and deflation of the balloon, the catheter and the balloon being sized and shaped for entry between two layers of a wall of a body lumen, wherein upon expansion of the balloon when placed between the layers, a distal portion of the first lumen that passes through the balloon is bent with respect to a portion of the first lumen proximal to the balloon and is directed towards the body lumen. | 10-02-2008 |
20090093877 | ACTIVE HOLDER FOR ANNULOPLASTY RING DELIVERY - An active annuloplasty ring holder having a template that can be folded or pivoted to the side allowing the template to align longitudinally with the handle and enter the patient's chest through a small incision. The holder may include a mechanism to remotely detach sutures fastening the ring to the holder, thereby detaching the ring while avoiding the risk associated with introducing a scalpel into the operating field. A detachment mechanism may include a movable pin actuated by a pull wire that releases a plurality of holding sutures, or a hot wire, knives, or pull wire that severs the sutures. The holder may have a built-in light source for better visualization of the ring inside the heart. The holder may also have an optical means of visualizing the inside of the heart from the proximal end of the handle. | 04-09-2009 |
20090137968 | Apparatus for Controlled Blood Regurgitation Through Tricuspid Valve - A device for reducing the pulmonary pressure by forcing controllable tricuspid valve regurgitation, using a catheter assembly ( | 05-28-2009 |
20100057121 | LAPAROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT AND RELATED SURGICAL METHOD - A medical instrument insertable through a cannula, the instrument comprising an elongate shaft; and an operative tip having a first jaw and a second jaw movable with respect to the first jaw. The operative tip disposed at a distal end of said elongate shaft and being disposed on said shaft for rotation relative to at least a distal end portion of said shaft about a longitudinal axis of said distal end portion. | 03-04-2010 |
20100113886 | SURGICAL PORT ASSEMBLY - A surgical port comprising a body and first and second cannula extending from the body and movable with respect to the body via an instrument inserted through the respective cannula. The cannulas can extend distally from the body and can include one or more seals. A port assembly and first and second instruments manipulatable in a crossed configuration are also disclosed. | 05-06-2010 |
20100198347 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF HEART VALVE REGURGITATION - In one embodiment, the present invention provides a prosthesis that can be implanted within a heart to at least partially block gaps that may be present between the two mitral valve leaflets. In one preferred embodiment, the prosthesis includes an anchoring ring that expands within the left atrium to anchor the prosthesis and a pocket member fixed to the anchoring ring. The pocket member is positioned within the mitral valve, between the leaflets so that an open end of the pocket member is positioned within the left ventricle. When the mitral valve is open, blood flows past the pocket member, maintaining the pocket member in a collapsed state. When the mitral valve closes, the backpressure of the blood pushes into the pocket member, expanding the pocket member to an inflated shape. The mitral valve leaflets contact the expanded pocket member, allowing the prosthesis to block at least a portion of the openings between the leaflets, thereby minimizing regurgitated blood flow into the left atrium. | 08-05-2010 |
20100222643 | LAPAROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT AND CANNULA ASSEMBLY AND RELATED SURGICAL METHOD - A laparoscopic port assembly includes a cannula unit including three cannulas each extending at an acute angle relative to a base. The cannulas are flexible for receiving respective angulated laparoscopic instruments. The cannula unit is rotatingly received in a port holder for rotation about a longitudinal axis of the holder, the holder being disposable in an opening in a patient's skin. | 09-02-2010 |
20110172491 | DETACHABLE BALLOON CATHETER - The disclosure relates to a device and method such as for treatment of a gastrointestinal perforation and a gastrointestinal bleeding. The device can be a balloon catheter that controls bleeding by pressing on a bleeding area or/and prevents the gastrointestinal contents trespassing outside a gastrointestinal lumen into a body cavity by blocking an opening in the luminal wall or blocking the colon distal or proximal to the perforation. The preferred device is inserted using an endoscope and allows to partially or completely withdraw an endoscope while leaving the balloon at the target area. The device and method can facilitate ceasing a colonic bleeding and blocking colonic perforation. | 07-14-2011 |
20110224494 | ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR EFFECTING AN ENDOLUMINAL ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE - Exemplary embodiments of devices and method for affecting at least one anatomical tissue can be provided. A configuration can be provided that includes a structure which is expandable (i) having and/or (ii) forming at least one opening or a working space through which the anatomical tissue(s) is placed in the structure. For example, the structure, prior to being expanding, can have at least one partially rigid portion. In addition, or as an alternative, upon a partial or complete expansion thereof, the structure can be controllable to have a plurality of shapes. Further, the structure can be controllable to provide the working space with multiple shapes and/or multiple sizes. | 09-15-2011 |
20120101331 | APPARATUS FOR DELIVERY OF AUTONOMOUS IN-VIVO CAPSULES - A guide for an endoscope capsule includes a hollow sleeve. The distal end of the sleeve has attached an invertible member for fitting the capsule within. The invertible member may be inverted via hydraulic or pneumatic pressure to expel the capsule from the guide and into a desired location within a patient's body lumen. The guide may be attached to an actuator which contains a fluid and an actuating member. The actuating member pressurizes the fluid distally through the hollow sleeve thereby inverting the invertible member and expelling the capsule into the body lumen. The guide may be used with an endoscope or may be a stand-alone device. | 04-26-2012 |
20120265229 | LANCET MICRO-CATHETER - A micro-catheter ( | 10-18-2012 |
20120265233 | INVERTED BALLOON NECK ON CATHETER - A method for thermal bonding of an inverted balloon neck on a catheter, including placing an inverted balloon neck ( | 10-18-2012 |
20120323269 | LUMEN REENTRY DEVICES AND METHODS - A device, such as for use with lumen reentry, including a catheter including a balloon disposed at a distal end thereof, the catheter being formed with a first lumen through the balloon for passing therethrough a guidewire and a second lumen for inflation and deflation of the balloon, the catheter and the balloon being sized and shaped for entry between two layers of a wall of a body lumen, wherein upon expansion of the balloon when placed between the layers, a distal portion of the first lumen that passes through the balloon is bent with respect to a portion of the first lumen proximal to the balloon and is directed towards the body lumen. | 12-20-2012 |
20130030522 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR HEART TREATMENTS - A method and device for treating a heart by assisting one or more heart chambers to expand during diastole. The method comprises providing a plurality of anchoring members; providing an elongate member and a release mechanism connected to the elongate member, the release mechanism being configured to releasably engage with each of the plurality of anchoring members; the elongate member being configured to store energy exerted by a heart chamber during systole, and release the stored energy during diastole to assist the heart chamber to return to an uncompressed state; selecting one of the plurality of anchoring members; positioning the elongate member transverse a chamber of the heart; and engaging the release mechanism with the selected anchoring member so as to releasably attach the elongate member to the selected anchoring member. | 01-31-2013 |
20130150955 | ACTIVE HOLDER FOR ANNULOPLASTY RING DELIVERY - An active annuloplasty ring holder having a template that can be folded or pivoted to the side allowing the template to align longitudinally with the handle and enter the patient's chest through a small incision. The holder may include a mechanism to remotely detach sutures fastening the ring to the holder, thereby detaching the ring while avoiding the risk associated with introducing a scalpel into the operating field. A detachment mechanism may include a movable pin actuated by a pull wire that releases a plurality of holding sutures, or a hot wire, knives, or pull wire that severs the sutures. The holder may have a built-in light source for better visualization of the ring inside the heart. The holder may also have an optical means of visualizing the inside of the heart from the proximal end of the handle. | 06-13-2013 |
20130268069 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION - In one embodiment, the present invention provides a prosthesis that can be implanted within a heart to at least partially block gaps that may be present between the two mitral valve leaflets. In one preferred embodiment, the prosthesis includes an anchoring ring that expands within the left atrium to anchor the prosthesis and a pocket member fixed to the anchoring ring. When the mitral valve is open, blood flows past the pocket member, maintaining the pocket member in a collapsed state. When the mitral valve closes, the backpressure of the blood pushes into the pocket member, expanding the pocket member to an inflated shape. The mitral valve leaflets contact the expanded pocket member, allowing the prosthesis to block at least a portion of the openings between the leaflets, thereby minimizing regurgitated blood flow into the left atrium. | 10-10-2013 |
20130281783 | Laparoscopic Instrument and Cannula Assembly and Related Surgical Method - A laparoscopic port assembly includes a cannula unit including three cannulas each extending at an acute angle relative to a base. The cannulas are flexible for receiving respective angulated laparoscopic instruments. The cannula unit is rotatingly received in a port holder for rotation about a longitudinal axis of the holder, the holder being disposable in an opening in a patient's skin. | 10-24-2013 |
20140025086 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING GUIDEWIRES - Device and method for capturing guidewires inside blood vessels. The disclosed device enables retrieval of guidewires that need to be pulled from the body at a different location than the guidewire entering location, such as guidewires that have entered in a retrograde direction. | 01-23-2014 |
20140031843 | HYPOTUBE BASED SUPPORT CATHETER - Hypo-tube based support catheter ( | 01-30-2014 |
20140039398 | NEEDLE AND GUIDEWIRE HOLDER - Device and method for puncturing blood vessels while using fluoroscopy. The disclosed device enables improved needle orientation control and avoids direct exposure of the clinician's hand to X-ray during the puncturing procedure. | 02-06-2014 |
20140163449 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IN-VIVO PRESSURE - A differential pressure regulating device is provided for controlling in-vivo pressure in a body, and in particularly in a heart. The device may include a shunt being positioned between two or more lumens in a body, to enable fluids to flow between the lumens, and an adjustable flow regulation mechanism being configured to selectively cover an opening of the shunt, to regulate the flow of fluid through the shunt in relation to a pressure difference between the body lumens. In some embodiments a control mechanism coupled to the adjustable flow regulation mechanism may be provided, to remotely activate the adjustable flow regulation mechanism. | 06-12-2014 |
20140249574 | LAPAROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT AND RELATED SURGICAL METHOD - A medical instrument insertable through a cannula, the instrument comprising an elongate shaft; and an operative tip having a first jaw and a second jaw movable with respect to the first jaw. The operative tip disposed at a distal end of said elongate shaft and being disposed on said shaft for rotation relative to at least a distal end portion of said shaft about a longitudinal axis of said distal end portion. | 09-04-2014 |
20140275860 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SENSING WITHIN IN-VIVO FLUIDS - Devices and a system for detection of blood within in-vivo fluids are provided. A device comprises a housing that includes a gap. The gap has at least one opening through which in-vivo fluids may enter and/or exit the gap. The device further comprises an illumination source for illuminating the in-vivo fluids in the gap, a light detector for detecting light which passes through the in-vivo fluids in the gap, and flexible fins disposed on the housing in the vicinity of the gap's opening for covering the opening when the fins are folded and for pumping fluids into and out of the opening by repeated closure and opening of the opening by the fins, due to repeated peristaltic waves. This pumping effect may lead to continuous flow of fluids into and out of the opening and thus into and out of the gap of the device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140296666 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-VIVO DETECTION OF BLEEDING IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT - In-vivo devices, systems and methods for the detection of blood within in-vivo bodily fluids. The methods include irradiating in-vivo fluids passing through a gap in a housing of an in-vivo device introduced to the GI tract of a subject with a plurality of illumination sources positioned on a first side of a gap; detecting with at least one light detector positioned on the opposite side of the gap and facing the illumination sources, light irradiated by the illumination sources; transmitting a plurality of values representing the light detected over time; converting these values to blood concentration values over time, and comparing the blood concentration values to a predetermined threshold value. Based on the comparison, the method includes determining the type of bleeding profile, such that if a plurality of blood concentration values measured consecutively is above the threshold value, the bleeding profile indicates bleeding. | 10-02-2014 |