Maquet Cardiovascular LLC

Thermogenesis Corporation

A-med Systems, Inc.

Endosonics Corporation

Cesca Therapeutics, Inc.

Ballout, Bashar

Bruce A Baker

William Russell Kanz

Walid Najib Aboul-Hosn

Philip H Coelho

Michael J Eberle

John Raymond Chapman

Junzhi Li

Prince Emmanuel

Robert S Childers

Clifford R Varney

Jonathan D Spangler

Eric Sommer

Richard Klosinski

Jim Hobbs

Brian G Malone

Michael DeVries

Farah Charafeddine

An improved intravascular blood pump and related methods involving the broad inventive concept of equipping the intravascular blood pump with guiding features such that the intravascular blood pump can be selectively positioned at a predetermined location within the circulatory system of a patient.

Guidable intravascular blood pump and related methods

A cannula is provided with one or more pressure transducers for measuring fluid pressure interiorly or exteriorly of the cannula. The pressure transducers may be mounted integrally with the tubular wall defining the main lumen of the cannula, or they may comprise differential pressure transducers mounted in dedicated lumens in communication with the main lumen. The pressure measurements from the transducers is used to determine fluid flow rate.

The invention includes compositions of stem and progenitor cells recovered from bone marrow or cord blood containing most of the viable CD34+ cells and substantially depleted of red blood cells resident in the original sample, without any xenobiotic additives to aid cell separation. The invention also includes a system and method for preparing the compositions. The system includes a bag set and a processing device, which utilizes an optical sensor, microcontroller, servo motor, accelerometer, load cell, and battery. The system and method utilize centrifugation to stratify the cells into layers and then separate and transfer the stem cells into a stem cell bag. The processing device's microcontroller receives input from the device's accelerometer, load cell and optical sensor to direct the metering valve in the bag set to open and close to permit the transfer of as many stems cells as possible with as few red cells as possible.

Stem and progenitor cell compositions recovered from bone marrow or cord blood; system and method for preparation thereof

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Bruce A Baker