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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D660433 | Surgical stent assembly | 05/22/2012 |
| D660432 | Commissure point | 05/22/2012 |
| D659826 | Tissue clamping member | 05/15/2012 |
| D658026 | Actuation handle | 04/24/2012 |
| 8114123 | Apparatus and methods for tissue gathering and securing Methods and apparatus are provided that gather a patient's body tissue and then secure the gathered tissue in a reduced area utilizing a securing structure. The securing structure mainly resides on one side of the tissue to minimize or eliminate both foreign materia... | 02/14/2012 |
| D654170 | Stent connections | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109944 | Surgical device A device for automatically providing needles to a sealing apparatus for sealing a puncture in an anatomical structure, the sealing apparatus including a needle insertion lumen and a needle pusher channel having a needle pusher disposed therein. The device may includ... | 02/07/2012 |
| D653343 | Surgical cuff | 01/31/2012 |
| D653342 | Stent connections | 01/31/2012 |
| D653341 | Surgical stent | 01/31/2012 |
| D652927 | Surgical stent | 01/24/2012 |
| D652926 | Forked end | 01/24/2012 |
| 8092523 | Prosthetic heart valves with flexible leaflets A prosthetic heart valve of the type that includes a hollow annular stent and a plurality of flexible leaflets that are attached to the stent. One or more fixture structures are used to attach the leaflets to the stent so that sutures do not have to be used for that... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8080034 | Vascular hemostasis device and deployment apparatus A hemostasis device for percutaneously sealing a puncture in the wall of a blood vessel includes a rigid post, and a foot, a seal and a retaining member mounted on the rigid post. The hemostasis device may be deployed in the puncture so that the foot is positioned w... | 12/20/2011 |
| D648854 | Commissure points | 11/15/2011 |
| 8052748 | Systems and methods for holding annuloplasty rings Holders for releasably holding annuloplasty rings prior to and during the implantation of the rings employ any of a variety of features relating to such things as holder shape, handle attachment structures, securement of a ring to the holder, and release of the ring... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7938856 | Heart valve annuloplasty prosthesis sewing cuffs and methods of making same An annuloplasty prosthesis for a heart valve has a sewing cuff added to the conventional structure. The sewing cuff is preferably an extension of the fabric cover that is provided around the core of the prosthesis. The sewing cuff preferably extends radially outward... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7803186 | Prosthetic heart valves with flexible leaflets and leaflet edge clamping A prosthetic heart valve includes an annular stent structure having a plurality of annularly spaced stent post regions, a plurality of leaflets that extend radially inward from the stent structure and that include radially outer portions that lie against a radially ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7722671 | Medical devices with associated growth factors A polypeptide growth factor is associated with a substrate to promote population of the substrate with endothelial cells. In a preferred approach, the growth factor is associated with the substrate by crosslinking under suitably mild conditions such that the growth ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722667 | Two piece bioprosthetic heart valve with matching outer frame and inner valve A bioprosthetic heart valve includes an outer frame configured to attach to a tissue annulus of a heart and an inner bioprosthetic valve having an exterior shape which substantially matches an interior shape of the outer frame. The exterior shape of the inner valve ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7632309 | Pyrolytic carbon and metal/metalloid carbide composites Medical devices can be formed from improved composite materials that include a composition that has at least about 50 percent by volume pyrolytic carbon and a second composition having at least about 50 percent by volume metal/metalloid carbide. The composite materi... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7604663 | Medical devices with polymer/inorganic substrate composites Improved medical device have an inorganic substrate and a polymer covering at least a portion of the substrate, in which the polymer forms a structure substantially different from the structure of the substrate. Other medical devices include a flexible composite com... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7578842 | Prosthetic heart valves A prosthetic heart valve includes a hydrogel material in its sewing cuff. The hydrogel material may be accompanied by an anticoagulant. If the hydrogel (and/or any included anticoagulant) might react with a packaging solution in which the valve is stored after inclu... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7575592 | Synthetic blood vessel grafts A synthetic blood vessel graft (e.g., for use with a prosthetic heart valve) includes a mounting cuff adjacent at least one end for facilitating attachment of the graft to another structure (e.g., a sewing cuff of a heart valve). The mounting cuff may be sized and s... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7569062 | Mitral and tricuspid valve repair A novel approach to mitral or tricuspid valve repair involves the performance of an edge-to-edge fastening/securing of opposing heart valve leaflets through a catheter entering the heart. Thus, a device is introduced including a leaflet fastener applicator through a... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7563280 | Efficient implantation of heart valve prostheses Tools can be used to assist with the implantation of heart valve prostheses, especially stentless aortic heart valve prostheses. In some embodiments, a heart valve prosthesis includes a plurality of flexible leaflets, a commissure support and a plurality of fastener... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7452376 | Flexible, non-planar annuloplasty rings An annuloplasty ring (for use as a heart valve prosthesis) has a non-planar shape and different lateral flexibilities at different points as one proceeds annularly around the ring. These different lateral flexibilities may be achieved in different ways such as by ch... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7389874 | Heart valve support and storing lid system and methods associated therewith Systems and methods for supporting a replacement heart valve are presented herein. A bioprosthesis may be stored in a storage container by suspending the bioprosthesis from a support structure. The volume of storage solution may be reduced by using a lid with a boss... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7371258 | Valved prosthesis with porous substrate An implantable prosthesis can be formed from an improved biocompatible material that provides for cellular colonization of the biocompatible material. Specifically, the biocompatible material is a rigid porous material. In embodiments of particular interest, the imp... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7338484 | Aortic heart valve prosthesis sizer and marker Improved sizers and markers include a cylindrical section and a handle extending from the cylindrical section. The cylindrical section has a diameter approximately equal to the diameter of an aortic heart valve prosthesis. The cylindrical section can include a marki... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7326564 | Flow system for medical device evaluation and production In some embodiments, a flow system includes a medical device mount, fluid and a conduit containing the fluid and medical device mount. The conduit is mounted on an assembly that moves the conduit along with the medical device mount to induce relative motion of the f... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316712 | Tissue heart valve with annulus support structure A heart valve prosthesis can be formed with a harvested tissue heart valve and a sewing rim that extends outwardly from the annulus of the harvested heart valve for easier attachment of the prosthesis. The heart valve prosthesis can further include a belt that exten... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7018404 | Conduit for aorta or pulmonary artery replacement Prosthetic conduits include biocompatible material formed into a generally cylindrical section and an expanded section connected to the generally cylindrical section. The conduit has a lumen extending through the generally cylindrical section and the expanded sectio... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6966924 | Annuloplasty ring holder An annuloplasty ring holder includes a first member and a second member. The first and second members are configured to provide relative movement therebetween to engage an annuloplasty ring. ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6953332 | Mandrel for use in forming valved prostheses having polymer leaflets by dip coating Improved dip coating methods and mandrels for forming polymer leaflets and valve prostheses generally involve one or more features on the mandrel that facilitate the processing. The mandrel has a top surface and an outer surface comprising a plurality of ridges and ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6936067 | Prosthetic heart valve with slit stent A valve prosthesis includes a plurality of flexible leaflets and a stent having a central lumen. A slit in the stent extends from the central lumen to an outer surface. An occluding portion of the flexible leaflets extends across the central lumen and an attachment ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6881224 | Fatigue test for prosthetic stent An improved method for testing a stent for a prosthetic valve includes applying a load with a fluid against a stented test structure in a backward direction with the stented test structure substantially blocking the flow of the fluid. The stented test structure incl... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6786925 | Driver tool with multiple drive gear layers for heart prosthesis fasteners A driver tool drives multiple fasteners simultaneously through the outer ring of a heart valve component into the surrounding tissue annulus of a heart. The driver tool includes two stacked satellite gear layers that drive flexible shafts that simultaneously drive t... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6780510 | Biocompatible adhesives Novel adhesive compositions are described that include an epoxyamine and, preferably, a curing agent. The adhesive composition can be used in surgical settings such as implanting bioprostheses and/or in manufacturing of bioprostheses. Biocompatible substrates can be... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6761736 | Medical article with a diamond-like carbon coated polymer Implantable vascular devices and implantable cardiovascular devices suitable for contacting a patient's blood or bodily fluids include a polymer substrate that is at least partly coated with a diamond-like carbon coating. The diamond-like carbon coated polymer subst... | 07/13/2004 |
