Medtronic, Inc.

Twelve, Inc.

The Foundry, Inc.

Pivot Medical, Inc.

Aegea Medical Inc.

Spinal Kinetics, Inc.

Ventrica, Inc.

Lifecell Corporation

Stryker Corporation

Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Medtronic Ave, Inc.

Simpirica Spine, Inc.

Allergan Holdings France S.a.s.

Green Sun Medical, LLC

Darin Charles Gittings

Mark E Deem

David H Cole

Hanson S Gifford, Iii

John H Morriss

Alan R Rapacki

Michael J Hendricksen

Dean F Carson

Michael Luna

Michael Lawrence Reo

Jean-Pierre Dueri

James Flom

James I Fann

Mark Y Hirotsuka

Samuel T Crews

Hanson Gifford

Douglas Sutton

Thomas Weisel

Matt McLean

Jay Alan Lenker

Michael A Evans

Douglas S Sutton

Michael H Rosenthal

Roman Turovskiy

Stephen A Boyd

Gholam-Reza Zadno-Azizi

Denise M Demarais

Geoffrey C Gurtner

Steven W Kim

J Brook Burley

Robert Bilgor Peliks

William Kaiser

Ivan Sepetka

Luke W Clauson

Richard S Ginn

David Allan White

John E Ashley

Mark J Foley

A Adam Sharkawy

Keke Lepulu

Gilbert S Laroya

Uriel Hiram Chee

Hugh Edward Magen

Jeffry J Grainger

Vivek Shenoy

Lynette Ross

Matthew Frushell

Wally S Buch

Adam Kessler

Adam Sharkawy

Geoff Willis

Dwayne Dupree

Torrey Smith

J Greg Stine

Daniel Van Zandt Moyer

Allan R Will

Brian J Domecus

Doug Sutton

Brian J Cox

Paritosh Ambekar

Matthew Thompson

Craig J Coombs

Sam Crews

Kirsten F Luehrs

Kinman Hong

Brian Shiu

Michael B Hayes

Sylvie Lombardi

Hugues Malandain

Kenneth N Horne

Matthew B Newell

Todd Alamin

Janine C Robinson

Louis Calvin Fielding

Daren Stewart

Ian Bennett

Anand Parikh

Frank Fellenz

Stephen L Olson

Nicholas C Koske

Jeffrey J Dolin

Eller Torres, Iv

Hiram Chee

Elizabeth V Wistrom

Hanson S Gifford Iii

Mark Deem

Torrey Pine Smith

Stephen Boyd

Roxanne L Richman

Shenoy Vivek

Devices and methods are disclosed herein for accessing the hip joint. A first device can be securely attached to the capsule of a joint. The first device can tent the capsule to increase the volume of the peripheral compartment. A second device can be biased against the first device to pierce the tented capsule and create a portal. Devices and methods are also disclosed herein for distending the capsule of a joint. A distention device may access a portal established within the capsule. The distention device can expand the capsule by applying an expansive force within the peripheral compartment. The distention device can maintain distention of the peripheral compartment while other devices access the joint.

Methods and devices for accessing and retracting a capsule of a joint

A heart valve repair device may include a support configured to extend through a native annulus of a native heart valve, wherein the support comprises an upstream portion and a downstream portion; an annular expandable retainer extending from the upstream portion of the support, and an arm extending from the downstream portion of the support. The annular expandable retainer may include a C-shaped cross-section that is open inwardly. The arm may be configured to reach behind a leaflet of the native heart valve and sandwich the leaflet between the arm and the support.

Devices, systems and methods for heart valve replacement

A method and system of providing therapy to a patient's uterus is provided, which can include any number of features. The method can include the steps of inserting a uterine device into the uterus and performing a uterine integrity test to determine that the uterus is intact and not perforated. Systems for performing these methods with monitored flow rate and independent of patient height relative to the pressure source are also disclosed.

Methods and apparatus for determining the integrity of a bodily cavity

Systems and methods for correcting spinal deformity utilize a dynamic, multi-structure torso orthosis that allows motion during wear. The disclosed embodiments utilize a series of elastically coupled ring structures that conform to the circumference of the torso of a patient. Adjustable elastic coupling mechanisms are utilized to create and alter forces and moments that are applied to the torso through these ring structures. In some instances, the ring structures are formed from individual elements that can be linked to accommodate particular anatomies. In other instances, a superior ring structure can be configured to accommodate the patient's upper torso.

Reconfigurable orthosis for deformity correction

A vapor delivery device includes an induction coil system. The induction coil system can include a coiled fluid tube, a coiled wire, a capsule between the coiled fluid tube and the wire, and a cooling fluid supply configured to force a cooling fluid through the capsule across the coiled wire. The induction coil system can include a closed loop ferrite core, a wire coiled around a first portion of the ferrite core, and a fluid tube coiled around a second portion of the ferrite core. A wire coil can be contained in a cartridge system removably coupleable to a disposable vapor delivery device. The system can include a fluid flow controller and induction power regulation to maintain a specific operating pressure range for vapor within a uterus or other bodily cavity, tract, or duct.

Induction coil assembly for uterine ablation and method

A method for impacting a suture anchor into bone comprises providing an implantable suture anchor and providing an impactor device for impacting the suture anchor into the bone. The suture anchor is coupled to a distal portion of the impactor device. Positioning the suture anchor engages the anchor with the bone at an implantation site, and powering the impactor device impacts the suture anchor thereby implanting the suture anchor into the bone. The frequency of impaction is less than 20 KHz. The impactor device is then decoupled from the suture anchor, and the impactor device may be removed from the implantation site.

Methods and devices for suture anchor delivery

Various devices, systems and methods for knotless suturing of tissue are disclosed. These devices allow sutures to be anchored to bone, and more specifically provide a suture anchor which eliminates the need for knotting the suture. Thus, damaged tissue may be re-attached to a substrate tissue. The anchors have a minimum of moving parts may be suited to being a single molded polymer construction. The anchors will find particular utility in hip and shoulder arthroscopy, e.g. labral re-attachment and similar procedures.

Knotless suture anchor and methods of use

Prosthetic heart valve devices for percutaneous replacement of native heart valves and associated systems and method are disclosed herein. A prosthetic heart valve device configured in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology can include an anchoring member having a first portion configured to engage with tissue on or near the annulus of the native heart valve and to deform in a non-circular shape to conform to the tissue. The device can also include a valve support coupled to a second portion of the anchoring member, configured to support a prosthetic valve and having a cross-sectional shape. In some embodiments, the first portion of the anchoring member is mechanically isolated from the valve support such that the cross-sectional shape of the valve support remains sufficiently stable that the prosthetic valve remains competent when the anchoring member is deformed in the non-circular shape.

Prosthetic heart valve devices, prosthetic mitral valves and associated systems and methods

A knotless suture anchoring system includes an outer anchor having a central channel and a distal tip adapted to penetrate tissue. An inner anchor is positionable in the central channel of the outer anchor and a locking feature on one or both of the inner and outer anchors retains the inner anchor within the central channel. A continuous length of suture is coupled with the inner and outer suture anchors and has a free end. At least one of the inner and the outer anchors also has a cinching mechanism that allows the suture to be tensioned by passage of the suture through the cinching mechanism in a first direction while movement of the suture through the cinching mechanism in a second direction opposite the first direction is constrained.

Methods and devices to treat diseased or injured musculoskeletal tissue

Various devices, systems and methods for knotless anchoring of sutures to repair bodily tissue are disclosed. These devices allow sutures to be anchored to bone or other tissues, and more specifically provide a suture anchor which eliminates the need for the operator to knot the suture to secure the suture under tension. Thus, damaged tissue may be re-attached to a substrate tissue. The anchors have a minimum of moving parts and find particular utility in hip and shoulder arthroscopy, e.g. labral reattachment, rotator cuff repair, and similar procedures.

Suture anchors with one-way cinching mechanisms

Devices and methods for tissue transfer are described where a cannula may be inserted into the breast of a subject at one of several points of entry. Insertion of the cannula into the breast may be accomplished by using a guidance system to distinguish between tissue types. Once desirably positioned, the cannula may be withdrawn from the breast while automatically (or manually) injecting the fat in multiple deposits of adipose tissue or fat such that the deposited fat remains within the tract formed by the withdrawn cannula. Multiple tracts of the deposited fat may be injected within the breast until the breast has been desirably remodeled and/or augmented.

Devices and methods for tissue transfer

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Darin Charles Gittings