Innovheart S.r.l.

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Sorin Group Italia S.r.l.

Sorin Biomedica Cardio S.p.a.

Sorin Biomedica Cardio, S.r.l.

Cid S.p.a.

Dong Ik Shin

Giovanni Righini

Cindy Trinh

Eugene J Jung

Eric Scott Vaughan

Giovanni Rolando

Paolo Gaschino

Laura Ghione

Eric Manasse

Kevin Magrini

Robert Pacheco

James D Savage

Jaime Merino

Vincenzo Cassolaro

Andrea Mariotto

A device for implanting a heart prosthesis including a central body, a containment portion having one or more sub-components, and a release device for the central body capable of being inserted into a catheter. A device for assisting the connection operation between the central body and the sub-components of the containment portion includes an assembly of catheters, of which there are at least two catheters for each sub-component of the containment portion, the catheters being joined to each other over a portion thereof and having at least one free end for each catheter.

Device for implanting a prosthesis for a heart valve and assembly procedure

A guide wire introduction device for positioning at least one guide wire around a heart valve. The device includes a first catheter provided with a distal deflection system, a second catheter inserted inside the first catheter, at least one lumen capable of causing a guide wire to slide therein and provided with a distal deflection system for deflecting the end thereof through an angle greater than 90°, and a third catheter inserted inside the first catheter. The third catheter has a guide wire capturing device therein and is provided with a distal deflection system.

Device for arranging guidewires around a heart valve

A valve assembly for instruments and/or guide wires for use as access/tool port includes a cannula attached to a valve housing with a through hole. Elastic valve members are housed in the valve housing for sealing the through hole either when no device is inserted, or when a specific device with a compatible cross section is inserted. A further sealing arrangement is housed in the valve housing. The further sealing arrangement is extendable within the valve housing to selectively reduce the width of the through hole from a non-sealed configuration where one generic device or a group of generic devices, not necessarily having the same size and/or shape, can be inserted into and/or removed from the through hole, to a sealed configuration where the sealing arrangement seals the through hole with the generic device or the group of generic devices inserted into the through hole.

Valve assembly with sealing capability for instruments and/or guide wires for use as access/tool port

An instrument for positioning a cardiac valve prosthesis in a vessel includes a wire element to slidingly guide the valve prosthesis towards an implantation site and an expandable element coupled to the wire element. The expandable element is expandable in the vessel to position the wire element in association with the implantation site. A method for positioning a cardiac valve prosthesis includes securing a delivery instrument at an appropriate location at the implantation site and delivering the valve prosthesis to the implantation site using the delivery instrument.

Device for in situ positioning of cardiac valve prosthesis

An ablation device, including a catheter and an ablation element incorporating one or more balloons at the distal end of the catheter, has a continuous passageway extending through it from the proximal end of the catheter to the distal side of the expandable ablation element. The ablation device ablates tissue by subjecting it to ultrasound energy, cryogenic energy, chemical, laser beam, microwave, or radiation energy. A probe carrying electrodes is introduced through this passageway and deploys, under the influence of its own resilience, to a structure incorporating a loop which is automatically aligned with the axis of the expandable ablation device, so that minimal manipulation is required to place the probe. Pulmonary vein potential is monitored in real time via the electrodes. The probe may have an atraumatic tip with a ball formed at the leading edge. The atraumatic tip prevents any tissue damage such as perforation of heart wall.

Miniature circular mapping catheter

A cardiac ablation device, including a catheter and an expandable ablation element incorporating one or more balloons at the distal end of the catheter, has a continuous passageway extending through it from the proximal end of the catheter to the distal side of the expandable ablation element. A probe carrying electrodes is introduced through this passageway and deploys, under the influence of its own resilience, to a structure incorporating a loop which is automatically aligned with the axis of the expandable ablation device, so that minimal manipulation is required to place the probe. The probe may have an atraumatic tip with a ball formed at the leading edge. The atraumatic tip prevents any tissue damage such as perforation of heart wall.

System for in situ positioning of cardiac valve prostheses without occluding blood flow

A process for setting an angioplasty stent on a corresponding insertion element, such as a delivery catheter, in which the angioplasty stent is subjected to an action of radial contraction. The stent is in a radially contracted state before being placed on the insertion element. Preferably, radial contraction of the stent results in a diameter at least marginally smaller than the diameter of the insertion element, e.g., a balloon catheter. After the stent has been set on the insertion element, in the structure of the stent there remain residual states of constraint which act in the direction of securing the stent in the condition of coupling to the insertion element.

Process for coupling an angioplasty stent to a corresponding insertion element, and kit thus formed

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