Covidien LP

Tyco Healthcare Group LP

Shifamed Holdings, LLC

Cardeon Corporation

Other

Vnus Medical Technologies, Inc.

Venclose, Inc.

Brady David Esch

Russell B Thompson

Fiona Maria Sander

Vijay Kumar Dhaka

Wilfred J Samson

Amr Salahieh

Tom Saul

Daniel K Hildebrand

Daniel Varghai

Anna Kerlo

John A Macoviak

Michael Stephan Mirizzi

Christopher Scott Jones

Brian Eugene Farley

Arthur W Zikorus

Janine C Robinson

James J Leary

Bob McRae

Mike Lee

Eric Olsen

Claudio Argento

Peter S Brown

Halil Ibrahim Karabey

Colin Mixter

Anna Grace Prestezog

Radit Tantisira

Robert Gordon McRae

Zheng Zhang

Shilpa Bhat

Baiyang Qiu

Todd Schoenberger

Jeff Zalewski

Hoa D Nguyen

Jeffrey J Christian

Michael J Lee

Darius A Przygoda

Rory Thomas Christian

Cody James Schindler

Lisa M Young

Jeff Valko

Michael Abelmann

Robert Gordon Mcrae

Fiona Marie Sander

Oliver Gockeritz

Randit Tantisira

Thomas Rory Christian

James Cody Schindler

Oliver Gockeeritz

Robert G Mcrae

Devices for moving blood within a patient, and methods of doing so. The devices can include a pump portion that includes an impeller and a housing around the impeller, as well as a fluid lumen. The impeller can be activated to cause rotation of the impeller and thereby move fluid within the fluid lumen.

Intravascular blood pumps and methods of use and manufacture

An intravascular fluid movement device that includes an expandable member having a collapsed, delivery configuration and an expanded, deployed configuration, the expandable member having a proximal end and a distal end, a rotatable member disposed radially and axially within the expandable member, and a conduit coupled to the expandable member, the conduit at least partially defining a blood flow lumen between a distal end of the conduit and a proximal end of the conduit, the conduit disposed solely radially inside of the expandable member in a distal section of the expandable member.

Intravascular fluid movement devices, systems, and methods of use

A working end of a catheter includes at least one therapeutic element, such as a resistive heating element, usable to deliver energy for ligating, or reducing the diameter of, a hollow anatomical structure. In certain examples, the catheter includes a lumen to accommodate a guide wire or to allow fluid delivery. In certain embodiments, a balloon is inflated to place resistive element(s) into apposition with a hollow anatomical structure and to occlude the structure. Indexing devices and methods are also disclosed for successively treating portions of the hollow anatomical structure. In certain examples, marks along the catheter shaft provide visual verification to the physician of the relative position of the therapeutic element of the catheter. Embodiments of indexing devices may include pairs of rings and/or hinged arms that move a catheter a desired indexed position between successive treatments.

Systems for treating a hollow anatomical structure

A technique allows for an electrical connection between a thermal abrasion heating catheter and the energy delivery console that utilizes serial communication. Accordingly, the serial communication allows data such as measured temperature, start/stop status, intended treatment area, device identification, device calibration parameters and/or use history to be conveyed along the same wires that deliver power to a heating element. For example, data can be conveyed along a two wire connection and provided at a frequency that is filtered out so that it is not delivered to a heating feature. In this example, one wire provides power to the heating element, one wire provided communication from the energy delivery console, and a third wire provides a common ground which the heating catheter uses to communicate with the energy delivery console.

Venous disease treatment

Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface

Apparatus and methods for segmental treatment of hollow anatomical structures using an optical fiber are disclosed. An elongate energy application device can absorb, scatter and/or reflect laser energy over a length of the elongate energy application device to thereby treat the hollow anatomical structure along one or more lengthened treatment segments.

Energy devices and methods for treating hollow anatomical structures

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

A catheter is usable to treat a hollow anatomical structure (HAS). The catheter comprises one or more shafts which extend away from a proximal end of the catheter toward a distal end thereof. The catheter further comprises an HAS constriction energy source located at or near the distal end of the catheter. The catheter further comprises at least one radially expandable transmural fluid delivery channel located in the catheter near the HAS constriction energy source.

Methods and apparatus for introducing tumescent fluid to body tissue

An energy delivering probe is used for thermally coagulating and/or constricting hollow anatomical structures (HAS) including, but not limited to, blood vessels such as perforator veins. The probe includes a shaft and an energy source.

Methods and apparatus for coagulating and/or constricting hollow anatomical structures

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Brady David Esch