Heartport, Inc.

Ethicon Endo-surgery, Inc.

Radiant Medical, Inc.

Zoll Circulation, Incorporated

Other

Baronova, Inc.

United States Surgical Corporation

Transvascular, Inc.

Satiety, Inc.

Endo-therapeutics, Inc.

Labintelligence, Inc.

Ethicon, Gmbh

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Neoguide Systems, Inc.

Cardiacmd, Inc.

Alex T Roth

Timothy R Machold

Nicole Denise Bloom

Christopher Allen Julian

Craig R Gerbi

Gary B Weller

Andrew H Hancock

James R Gannoe

Hanson S Gifford, Iii

Jose Alejandro

Wade A Keller

William S Peters

Edward A Oliver

Dave J Scott

Mark A Vierra

John Henry Stevens

Bruce A Reitz

Scott H Miller

Daniel Rogers Burnett

Philip Christopher Evard

Kobi Iki

Gilbert Mata, Jr

David Needleman

Erich A Gombocz

Jimmy Van Westenberg

Joshua Makower

J Christopher Flaherty

Amir Belson

Scott Clinton Anderson

David W Snow

Wesley D Sterman

William Stephen Tremulis

Robert Matthew Ohline

Jason Brian Whitt

David Jerry Scott

Joseph M Tartaglia

Stephen W Boyd

Brian S Donlon

Jamy Gannoe

Paul M Stull

Lawrence C Siegel

David H Rammler

Robert R Clappier

Sylvia W Fan

Kirsten L Valley

Amy L Hammack

Jeff P Callister

Crystine M Lee

Ed Oliver

Timothy C Corvi

Richard J Mueller, Jr

Frederic H Moll

John W Gaiser

Scott Hyler Heneveld

Patrick Edward Macaulay

Brandon Gregory Walsh

John T Garibotto

William A Holmes

Peter F Costa

Jeffry J Grainger

Philip R Houle

Chris A Julian

David C Forster

Chris Pamichev

Brian Beckey

Katherine Whitin

Richard M Soderstrom

Wilhem Kerth

Wilhelm Kerth

Adrian E Johnson

Lawrence W Arne

The present invention relates to gastric obstruction device deployment systems and a device for intermittently obstructing a bodily opening, such as a gastric opening, and includes a proximal occluding member connected to a distal occluding member by a tether. The proximal occluding member is formable from an elongated and narrower configuration to a contracted or expanded but wider configuration. When employed in the stomach, the gastric obstruction device may be arranged transluminally with the distal occluding member disposed in the duodenum and the proximal occluding member disposed against the pyloric valve, intermittently occluding the pyloric valve and preventing or delaying the flow of gastric contents through the pyloric valve.

Gastric obstruction device deployment assembly and methods of delivering and deploying a gastric obstruction device

The present invention relates to a device for intermittently obstructing a bodily opening, such as a gastric opening, and includes a proximal member connected to a distal member by a tether. The proximal member is formable from an elongated and narrower configuration to a contracted or expanded but wider configuration. When employed in the stomach, the device may be arranged transluminally with the distal member disposed in the duodenum and the proximal member disposed against the pyloric valve, intermittently occluding the pyloric valve and preventing or delaying the flow of gastric contents through the pyloric valve.

Locking gastric obstruction device and method of use

Methods and apparatuses for temperature modification of a patient, or selected regions thereof, including an induced state of hypothermia. The temperature modification is accomplished using an in-dwelling heat exchange catheter within which a fluid heat exchange medium circulates. A heat exchange cassette of any one of several disclosed variations is attached to the circulatory conduits of the catheter, the heat exchange cassette being sized to engage a cavity within one of various described re-usable control units. The control units include a heater/cooler device, a user input device, and a processor connected to receive input from various sensors around the body and the system. The heater/cooler device may be thermoelectric to enable both heating and 15&#x2033; cooling based on polarity. A temperature control scheme for ramping the body temperature up or down without overshoot is provided. The disposable heat exchange cassettes may include an integral pump head that engages with a pump drive mechanism within the re-usable control unit. More than one control unit may be provided to receive the same heat exchange cassette so that, for example, a large capacity control unit can be used initially, and a smaller, battery-powered unit can be substituted once the patient reaches the desired target temperature.

Method and system for control of a patient's body temperature by way of a transluminally insertable heat exchange catheter

The present invention relates to a device for intermittently obstructing a bodily opening, such as a gastric opening, and includes a proximal member connected to a distal member by a tether. The proximal member is formable from an elongated and narrower configuration to a contracted or expanded but wider configuration. When employed in the stomach, the device may be arranged transluminally with the distal member disposed in the duodenum and the proximal member disposed against the pyloric valve, intermittently occluding the pyloric valve and preventing or delaying, the flow of gastric contents through the pyloric valve.

A catheter system for controlling the body temperature of a patient by modifying the temperature of blood flowing within a blood vessel of the patient. The catheter system comprises a catheter body having a heat exchange region in contact with the blood; and a temperature probe having a distal end that extends from the catheter body, thereby monitoring the temperature of blood flowing within the blood vessel.

Catheter system with on-board temperature probe

A system for tissue approximation and fixation is described herein. A device is advanced in a minimally invasive manner within a patient's body to create one or several divisions or plications within a hollow body organ. The system comprises a stapler assembly having a tissue acquisition member and a tissue fixation member. The stapler assembly approximates tissue from within the hollow body organ with the acquisition member and then affixes the approximated tissue with the fixation member. In one method, the system can be used as a secondary procedure to reduce the size of a stoma within the hollow body organ.

Single fold device for tissue fixation

Devices and methods for tissue acquisition and fixation, or gastroplasty, are described. Generally, the devices of the system may be advanced in a minimally invasive manner within a patient's body, e.g., transorally, endoscopically, percutaneously, etc., to create one or several divisions or plications within the hollow body organ. Such divisions or plications can form restrictive barriers within a organ, or can be placed to form a pouch, or gastric lumen, smaller than the remaining stomach volume to essentially act as the active stomach such as the pouch resulting from a surgical Roux-En-Y gastric bypass procedure. Moreover, the system is configured such that once acquisition of the tissue by the gastroplasty device is accomplished, any manipulation of the acquired tissue is unnecessary as the device is able to automatically configure the acquired tissue into a desired configuration.

Devices and methods for placement of partitions within a hollow body organ

A medical device for managing tissue in an organ, such as the stomach, for retracting or positioning tissue and related organs to allow certain regions of the stomach to be acquired for a gastroplasty procedure. The medical device includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, and a tissue treatment device attached to the distal end of the elongated body. The tissue treatment device includes a first jaw opposite a second jaw, and each jaw is adapted to acquire tissue. A retractor is disposed along the tissue treatment device and adapted to be moveable from a delivery position to a retraction position to move or manage the tissue of the stomach. The medical device also includes a collapsible barrier disposed between the first and second jaws of the tissue treatment device to direct tissue into the first and second jaws separately.

Remote tissue retraction device

A heat exchange fluid supply system for supplying a heat exchange fluid to an intravascular heat exchange catheter includes a disposable cassette having a bulkhead and an external heat exchanger, and which is configured to operate in combination with a reusable master control unit. The bulkhead includes a reservoir section and a pump section. The reservoir section is provided with a means to monitor the amount of heat exchange fluid that is in the system. The bulkhead provides the mechanism for priming the system with heat exchange fluid from an external source and for circulating fluid to the catheter in a closed circuit. The pump section is configured to allow for pumping of heat exchange fluid at a constant pressure.

Disposable cassette for intravascular heat exchange catheter

Method and apparatus for modifying the temperature of a patient

A steerable, tendon-driven endoscope is described herein. The endoscope has an elongated body with a manually or selectively steerable distal portion and an automatically controlled, segmented proximal portion. The steerable distal portion and the segment of the controllable portion are actuated by at least two tendons. As the endoscope is advanced, the user maneuvers the distal portion, and a motion controller actuates tendons in the segmented proximal portion so that the proximal portion assumes the selected curve of the selectively steerable distal portion. By this method the selected curves are propagated along the endoscope body so that the endoscope largely conforms to the pathway selected. When the endoscope is withdrawn proximally, the selected curves can propagate distally along the endoscope body. This allows the endoscope to negotiate tortuous curves along a desired path through or around and between organs within the body.

Tendon-driven endoscope and methods of use

Method and apparatus for regional and whole body temperature modification

Growing community of inventors

Redwood City, CA, United States of America

Alex T Roth