The Penn State Research Foundation

Tc1 LLC

Thoratec Corporation

Tci Incorporated

Jeremy J Koncoski

Daniel A Walters

Mark W McBride

Phyllis Yuen

Robert L Campbell

Thomas M Mallison

William James Repka

Kevin J Powell

Daniel Metrey

Eric C Myer

Adam Roslund

Disclosed herein are heart pumps that can include a catheter body and an impeller coupled with a distal end of the catheter body. The impeller can include a tip that is resealable or that includes a resealable member. The heart pump can also include a diffuser disposed between the distal end of the catheter body and the impeller, wherein the diffuser includes a flow directing surface.

Percutaneous heart pump

Disclosed herein is a method of pumping blood in a patient. The method includes inserting an impeller housing and impeller into the patient, the impeller disposed within the impeller housing and having a longitudinal axis, positioning the impeller housing and the impeller at a treatment location in the patient, activating an adjustment device at a proximal end portion of the heart pump outside the patient to provide relative motion between the impeller housing and the impeller along the longitudinal axis, and pumping blood through the impeller housing along the longitudinal axis.

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Pennsylvania Furnace, PA, United States of America

Jeremy J Koncoski