St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.

Benedict Skemp

Tracee E Eidenschink

Edward E Parsonage

Theodore Paul Dale

Michael P Meyer

Brian Joseph Perszyk

Mathias Charles Glimsdale

Aditee Kurane

Ross Paulson

Justin James Herbert

Bryan Clare Patrick

Natasha Louise Bond

Christopher William Hunt

Bryan Cheng Yang Goh

A delivery device for a prosthetic mitral valve includes five sheaths and a handle. The first sheath is coupled to a first handle portion and is rotatable and bendable. The second sheath is coupled to a second handle portion and extends through the first sheath. The second sheath is bendable, rotatable and translatable relative to the first sheath. The third sheath is coupled to a third handle portion and extends through the first and second sheaths. The third sheath is translatable relative to the second sheath. The second handle portion is coupled to the first and third handle portions. The fourth sheath extends through the third sheath and forms part of a compartment to store the prosthetic valve. The fifth sheath extends through the fourth sheath to a tip and is coupled to a retaining sheath that closes the compartment to retain the valve in a collapsed condition.

Transseptal mitral valve delivery system

A structure for sealing a gap between a medical device and adjacent body tissue includes a ring-shaped body formed at least in part of a material that expands from a compressed condition to an expanded condition when heated to a transition temperature and that is adapted to conform to the body tissue in the expanded condition.

Thermally-activated biocompatible foam occlusion device for self-expanding heart valves

The present disclosure provides improved medical devices for occluding a left atrial appendage. In one embodiment, the medical device includes a temperature activated memory shape foam that is constructed to transition from a first collapsed conformation to a second expanded conformation upon an increase in temperature such that it can expand to provide an occlusive benefit inside a left atrial appendage. In another embodiment the medical device includes a flowable thermoset that is injected into the left atrial appendage where is it cured so that it may assume the conformation of the left atrial appendage and provide an occlusive benefit.

Occlusion devices and methods of making and using same

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Golden Valley, MN, United States of America

Benedict Skemp