Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC

Insulet Corporation

Leland Stanford Junior University

University of Pittsburgh

Vertiflex, Inc.

Other

Hologic, Inc.

Exactech, Inc.

Circulite Gmbh

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Carnegie Mellon University

Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation

Brown University

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

J Christopher Flaherty

Joshua Makower

John T Garibotto

Jason Brian Whitt

Randell Louis Werneth

Philip Christopher Evard

Jay D Caplan

Harith Rajagopalan

Rodney A Brenneman

R Maxwell Flaherty

Timothy R Machold

Moti Altarac

Mohammed S El-Kurdi

Lorenzo Soletti

Patrick Edward Macaulay

William J Gorman

Jon McGrath

Daniel Huan Kim

Theodore Charles Lamson

Ricardo David Roman

Christopher Gerard Kunis

David R Tholfsen

John Y Chang

Marshall L Sherman

Brad M Kellerman

Dean A Schaefer

Alexander J Asconeguy

Graydon Ernest Beatty

Michael L Friedman

Shawn Tebbe

John N Irwin, Iii

Craig Morris Gardner

Paul V Fenton

Arnold E Oyola

Brett Zubiate

Andrew Owen Coats

Joseph A Stand, Iii

Ronald David Adams

Joseph Catanese, Iii

William Richard Wagner

William Harwick Gruber

Timothy J Corvi

Marc Jensen

Russell J Redmond

Joey Reglos

Steven W Kim

Kevin Gerald Connors

Christoph Scharf

Stanley Kyle Hayes

Philip Stephen Levin

Claude A Vidal

Thomas Banks

Mark T Stewart

Christopher C Gregory

Peter Gregory Davis

Timothy J Wood

Gunter Scharf

Christopher James Kadamus

Douglas S Cali

Liem Vu

Robert G Anderson

Alex T Roth

John Joseph Stankus

Lakshmi Narayan Mishra

Lee F Hartley

Andrew Ziegler

Stephen C Evans

David A Rezac

Timothy Robinson

Domenic N Santoianni

Oliver Marseille

Daniel Nahon

Wolfgang Kerkhoffs

Joseph Ting

Daniel Michael Pivonka

Steven Anthony Yon

Maurice Buchbinder

Dale E Whipple

Amir Degani

Thomas M Castellano

Howard Choset

Richard Morgan Moroney, Iii

James Coleman Lee

William Robert Patterson

Sangeeta N Bhatia

Nareak Douk

Robert C Farnan

Alan Kirby Plyley

Eric A Swanson

Logan P Palmer

Jeffrey S Ross

Christopher Petroff

Christopher L Petersen

David Paul Chastain

Christopher Linden

William Walker Clark

James Calvin Allan

Earl Frederick Bardsley

Tan Q Dinh

Michael Madden

Methods, systems and devices for treating a patient include providing a tissue treatment element constructed and arranged to deliver energy to tissue and treating tissue of the gastrointestinal tract by causing the tissue treatment element to deliver energy to an energy delivery zone. Treatment results in a reduction in the luminal surface area of at least a portion of the gastrointestinal tract. In particular embodiments, the methods, systems and devices are used to treat diabetes.

Methods, systems and devices for reducing the luminal surface area of the gastrointestinal tract

A device for ablating target tissue of a patient with an ablative fluid is provided. An elongate shaft includes a proximal portion and a distal portion, and at least one fluid delivery element is attached to the distal portion. The device can be configured to ablate the duodenal mucosa of a patient while avoiding damage to the duodenal adventitial tissue. Systems and methods of treating target tissue are also provided.

Ablation systems, devices and methods for the treatment of tissue

Provided are a localization system and method useful in the acquisition and analysis of cardiac information. The localization system and method can be used with systems that perform cardiac mapping, diagnosis and treatment of cardiac abnormalities, as examples, and in the retrieval, processing, and interpretation of such types of information. The localization system and method use high impedance inputs, improved isolation, and relatively high drive currents for pairs of electrodes used to establish a multi-axis coordinate system. The axes can be rotated and scaled to improve localization.

Localization system and method useful in the acquisition and analysis of cardiac information

A plurality of individual tools is provided where each tool is uniquely configured to perform a step or a portion of a step in a novel procedure associated with the implantation of a stabilizing device (e.g., an interspinous spacer) for stabilizing at least one spinal motion segment. The tools are usable individually, or more preferably as a tooling system in which the tools are collectively employed to implant an interspinous spacer, generally in a minimally invasive manner. For example, each of the tools is arranged with coordinated markings and/or other features to ensure consistent depths of insertion, proper orientation of the tools with respect to each other or an anatomical feature of the patient, and precise delivery of the spacer to maintain safe positioning throughout the implantation procedure.

Devices and methods for treating a patient's spine

A system for producing a graft device for a patient may comprise: an imaging device configured to produce image data of a tubular conduit; and a processing unit configured to receive the image data from the imaging device. The processing unit may comprise an algorithm configured to process the image data, and produce a construction signal based on the image data. A material delivery device may be configured to receive the construction signal from the processor, and deliver material to produce a 3D covering based on the construction signal. The graft device may comprise the 3D covering positioned about the tubular conduit. Graft devices and methods of producing graft devices may also be provided.

System for producing a graft device with a three dimensional covering

A system for treating a patient comprises an elongate shaft, an expandable reservoir and a fluid delivery assembly. The elongate shaft comprises a distal portion and is constructed and arranged to be introduced into a gastrointestinal lumen. The expandable reservoir is positioned on the elongate shaft distal portion and is constructed and arranged to receive a first fixed amount of ablative fluid and to deliver a first thermal dose of energy to a first portion of target tissue. The fluid delivery assembly is in fluid communication with the expandable reservoir and is constructed and arranged to deliver the first fixed amount of ablative fluid to the expandable reservoir. Devices and methods for treating tissue of a patient are also provided.

Systems, methods and devices for treatment of target tissue

A medical appliance for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient, the appliance comprising: a biasing member for inserting behind and exerting a force upon the patient's soft palate or tongue, wherein the biasing member is inserted in a reduced or minimized form and then expanded or firms once in place to exert the force. The appliance may be nasally inserted or be placed through the mouth. In a particular configuration, both the soft palate and tongue are biased to prevent obstruction of the flow of air in the nasopharyngeal airway.

Devices, systems and methods for the treatment of sleep apnea

Methods of generating a graphical representation of cardiac information on a display screen are provided. The method comprises: electronically creating or acquiring an anatomical model of the heart including multiple cardiac locations; electronically determining a data set of source information corresponding to cardiac activity at the multiple cardiac locations; electronically rendering the data set of source information in relation to the multiple cardiac locations on the display screen. Systems and devices for providing a graphical representation of cardiac information are also provided.

Cardiac analysis user interface system and method

Systems, methods, and software products provide increased trust in authentication of a user to an authentication server when a trusted witness client device witnesses the authentication of the user on the user's root client device. Both the root and the witness client devices cooperate to present the user with an interactive task during the authentications and each client device independently captures movement of the user performing the interactive task, during which, the user is authenticated to the root client device. An increased level of trust in the authentication of the user is achieved by the authentication server when the captured movements match expected movements of the user performing the interactive task and the authentication server has proof that the witness client devices witnessed a successful authentication.

Systems and methods including user authentication

A method for performing a medical procedure in an intestine of a patient is provided. The method comprises providing a system comprising: a catheter for insertion into the intestine, the catheter comprising: an elongate shaft comprising a distal portion; and a functional assembly positioned on the shaft distal portion and comprising at least one treatment element. The catheter is introduced into the patient, and target tissue is treated with the at least one treatment element. The target tissue comprises mucosal tissue of the small intestine, and the medical procedure can be configured to treat polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).

Systems, devices and methods for performing medical procedures in the intestine

A tubular tissue graft device is provided comprising a tubular member and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the tubular tissue. The matrix may be electrospun onto the tubular tissue. In one embodiment, the tubular tissue is from a vein, such as a saphenous vein, useful as an arterial graft, for example and without limitation, in a coronary artery bypass procedure. Also provided is method of preparing a tubular graft comprising depositing a fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a perimeter of a tubular tissue to produce a tubular tissue graft device. A cardiac bypass method comprising bypassing a coronary artery with a tubular tissue graft device comprising a vein and a restrictive fiber matrix of a bioerodible polymer about a circumference of the vein also is provided.

Bioerodible wraps and uses therefor

A system for treating a patient comprises a delivery device and injectate. The delivery device comprises an elongate shaft with a distal portion and at least one delivery element positioned on the elongate shaft distal portion. The delivery device is constructed and arranged to deliver the injectate through the at least one delivery element and into tissue to create a therapeutic restriction in the gastrointestinal tract. Methods of creating a therapeutic restriction are also provided.

Systems, devices and methods for the creation of a therapeutic restriction in the gastrointestinal tract

A tissue fixation system including a delivery tube and an elongated fastener with a loop at a proximal end and a distal end. A proximal end of an elongated curved needle is attached to the delivery tube. A distal end of the needle is configured to penetrate tissue. The needle includes an open channel sized to receive the elongated fastener with the loop located near the proximal end of the elongated curved needle and the distal end of the elongated fastener located near the distal end of the elongated curved needle. A capture needle is slidably positioned in the delivery tube to slide through the loop in the proximal end of the elongated fastener. The capture needle is configured to grasp the distal end of the elongated fastener and pull the distal end of the elongated fastener through the loop to cinch the elongated fastener.

Filamentous tissue implant

A system for treating a patient comprises a stimulator for stimulating brain tissue, a controller for setting stimulation parameters and a diagnostic tool for measuring patient parameters and producing diagnostic data. The stimulation parameters comprise test stimulation parameters and treatment stimulation parameters. The stimulator delivers test stimulation energy to the brain tissue based on at least one test stimulation parameter and delivers treatment stimulation energy to the brain tissue based on at least one treatment stimulation parameter. One or more treatment stimulator parameters are determined based on the diagnostic data produced by the diagnostic tool The system is constructed and arranged to treat a neurological disease or a neurological disorder. Methods of treating a neurological disease or neurological disorder are also provided.

Brain stimulation system including multiple stimulation modes

An ablation system comprises: an ablation catheter and a console. The ablation catheter comprises: a shaft including a proximal end, a distal portion and a distal end; an ablation element configured to deliver energy to tissue; and a force maintenance assembly comprising a force maintenance element and configured to control and/or assess contact force between the ablation element and cardiac tissue. The console is configured to operably attach to the ablation catheter and comprises: an energy delivery assembly configured to provide energy to the ablation element. Methods of ablating tissue are also provided.

Ablation system with force control

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