Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Uptake Medical Technology Inc.

Avina Gupta

Brian S Conklin

Da-Yu Chang

Robert Lawrence Barry

Van Le Huynh

Erik Henne

Amy E Munnelly

Kurt Kelly Reed

Sooji Van Echten

Amanda Grace Sall

Sourish Bandyopadhyay

A prosthetic heart valve has a plurality of valve leaflets that control directional flow of blood through a heart and a stent structure having a plurality of commissure posts supporting the valve leaflets. The stent structure has a covering over the plurality of commissure posts and has a sewing ring at an inflow end of the stent structure. Each of the plurality of commissure posts has a tip and a suture loop is attached to the covering at a location adjacent to or on the tip of the commissure post. Each suture loop provides a passage for a suture to pass through between the covering and the suture loop.

Valve holder assembly with suture looping protection

Methods and apparatus for diagnosing and treating disorders of the lung are provided, which may include any number of features. In one embodiment, a method comprises obtaining diagnostic information relating to a patient's lungs, compiling a list of potential treatment plans for lung volume reduction in the first and second lungs, excluding treatment plans from the list of potential treatment plans that propose treatment of a lung segment that falls within a segment exclusion rule, and identifying at least one preferred treatment plan from the list of potential treatment plans that targets sufficiently diseased lung segments while also targeting a preferred combined volume of the first and second lungs.

Preferential volume reduction of diseased segments of a heterogeneous lobe

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Alta Loma, CA, United States of America

Avina Gupta