Medtronic, Inc.

Genesee Biomedical, Inc.

John Thomas Matthew Wright

George M Acosta

Jeffrey James Giba

Hieu Cong Nguyen

David W Skinkle

A holding device for a tricuspid prosthetic tissue heart valve which permits the commissure support struts to be drawn toward one another by increasing the tension on the threads which attach the holder to the valve. The resulting tapered valve configuration facilitates valve insertion and reduces the possibility of damaging the valve tissue during implantation.

Valve holder for tricuspid heart valve

A support arm assembly for assisting in the performance of cardiac surgery has an articulated arm movable axially of a support base and rotatable relative to the support base. A distal end of the articulated arm receives a contact member and the contact member is moveable relative to the distal end. A surgeon may configure the support arm assembly to contact a desired portion of a heart and fix the articulated arm, its axial position, its rotated position and the orientation of the contact member with a single control.

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Denver, CO, United States of America

John Thomas Matthew Wright