Paracor Medical, Inc.

Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

Imperative Care, Inc.

Paracor Surgical, Inc.

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Other

Graftworx, Inc.

Prograft Medical, Inc.

Lilip Lau

William M Hartigan

John J Frantzen

Bill Hartigan

Anuja H Patel

Matthew G Fishler

Craig E Mar

Charles T Maroney

Farhad Khosravi

Sharon S Lam

Troy L Thornton

Joshua K Wallin

Steven Meyer

Kurt R Klemm

Craig Mar

Michael S Williams

Ulrich Sigwart

Scott N Stonebrook

Gerald Ray Martin

Kyle Bartholomew

James K Hong

Avegel Hernando

Michael Luna

Yi Yang

Woonza M Rhee

Randy S Chan

Kimberly A McCullough

Ian Peter Van Sciver

Darrell H Ogi

Samit Kumar Gupta

David John Kuraguntla

Sieu T Duong

Anthony Flannery, Jr

Rainier Beitelia

Sieu Dong

Alan R Klenk

Hilary Ann Koster

Anthony F Flannery

A method of performing a neurovascular procedure includes providing an assembly including a guidewire having a guidewire hub, an access catheter having an access catheter hub, and a guide catheter having a guide catheter hub. The method includes coupling the guidewire hub to a first hub adapter, coupling the access catheter hub to a second hub adapter, and coupling the guide catheter hub to a third hub adapter. Each of the first hub adapter, the second hub adapter and the third hub adapter is movably carried by a support table. The method includes driving the assembly in response to movement of each of the first hub adapter, the second hub adapter and the third hub adapter along the support table until the assembly is positioned to achieve supra-aortic vessel access.

Method of performing a multi catheter robotic neurovascular procedure

A method of priming an interventional device assembly includes providing the interventional device assembly including a first interventional device coupled to a first hub and a second interventional device coupled to a second hub arranged in a concentric stack, the second interventional device being positioned within a lumen of the first interventional device. The method includes coupling the interventional device assembly to a drive system while arranged in the concentric stack, axially advancing the first interventional device and the first hub relative to the second hub to decrease a depth of insertion of the second interventional device within the lumen of the first interventional device while maintaining a distal end of the second interventional device within the lumen of the first interventional device, and flushing the first interventional device with fluid after decreasing the depth of insertion of the second interventional device within the lumen of the first interventional device.

Method of priming concentrically stacked interventional devices

A method of priming an interventional device assembly includes providing the interventional device assembly, the interventional device assembly including a first interventional device and a second interventional device, the second interventional device being positioned within the first interventional device. The method further includes reciprocally moving at least one of the first interventional device and the second interventional device relative to the other of the first interventional device and the second interventional device while flushing a lumen between the first interventional device and the second interventional device with fluid to remove microbubbles from the lumen.

Method of priming an interventional device assembly

A drive system for achieving supra-aortic access and neurovascular treatment site access includes a guidewire hub configured to adjust an axial position and a rotational position of a guidewire, a procedure catheter hub configured to adjust an axial position and a rotational position of a procedure catheter, a guide catheter hub configured to adjust an axial position of a guide catheter, and an access catheter hub configured to adjust an axial position and a rotational position of an access catheter, the access catheter further configured to laterally deflect a distal deflection zone of the access catheter.

Robotic drive system for achieving supra-aortic access

A supra-aortic vessel access robotic control system includes a guidewire hub configured to adjust each of an axial position and a rotational position of a guidewire; a guide catheter hub configured to adjust a guide catheter in an axial direction; and a procedure catheter hub configured to adjust each of an axial position and a rotational position of a procedure catheter, and also to laterally deflect a distal deflection zone of the procedure catheter.

Catheter drive system for supra-aortic access

A fluidics management system includes a cassette configured to receive saline from a saline source, receive contrast from a contrast source, and receive vacuum from a vacuum source. The cassette includes a plurality of saline connectors, each of the plurality of saline connectors configured to couple to one of a plurality of catheters to provide saline thereto, a plurality of contrast connectors, each of the plurality of contrast connectors configured to couple to one of the plurality of catheters to provide contrast thereto, and a plurality of vacuum connectors, each of the plurality of vacuum connectors configured to couple to one of the plurality of catheters to provide vacuum thereto.

Fluidics management system

A method of performing a neurovascular procedure includes the steps of providing an access catheter having an access catheter hub; coupling the access catheter hub to a hub adapter, movably carried by a support table; driving the access catheter in response to movement of the hub adapter along the table until the access catheter is positioned to achieve supra-aortic vessel access; removing the access catheter and access catheter hub from the hub adapter; and coupling a procedure catheter hub having a procedure catheter to the hub adapter.

Method of robotically performing a neurovascular procedure

Systems and methods for remotely monitoring blood flow that include an endovascular prosthesis. The endovascular prosthesis includes a conduit forming a lumen within a surrounding wall having an inner surface and an outer surface. A monitoring device is disposed on the wall forming the lumen. The monitoring device comprises a sensor element configured to detect a physical event and to generate an electrical parameter shift in response to the physical event. An antenna portion is configured to receive a first oscillating electrical signal from an interrogator device and to transmit a second oscillating electrical signal to the interrogator device. The second oscillating electrical signal is modulated by the electrical parameter shift.

System and method for measuring blood flow parameters in a blood vessel having an endovascular prosthesis

The invention is a stent-graft device having a support component with multiple turns of an undulating member where the undulations have a number of apexes. The graft component of the device is substantially coaxial with the support component and is attached to the support component so as to allow a number of the support component's apexes to move relative to the graft.

Exterior supported self-expanding stent-graft

A stent-graft including a stent member having an inner surface and an outer surface, a generally tubular graft member and a coupling member that couples the stent member to the graft member. The coupling member, which is the preferred embodiment is in the form of a ribbon, covers only a portion of the inner or outer surface of the stent member and secures the stent member and graft member to one another. Alternatively, the coupling member can be described as interconnecting less than entirely the inner or outer surface of the graft member to the stent member. With this construction, regions of the stent member do not interfere with the coupling member. Shear stresses between the stent member and the coupling member and the risk of tearing the graft or coupling member or delamination therebetween may be reduced as compared to a fully enveloped stent member. This construction also provides improved flexibility and kink resistance.

Kink resistant stent-graft

A cardiac harness for treating or preventing congestive heart failure is configured to be placed about at least a portion of a patient's heart so as to apply a mild compressive force on the heart. In one embodiment, the cardiac harness comprises a plurality of spaced apart conductive panels arranged so that there is no electrical continuity circumferentially around the harness. In an additional embodiment, a cardiac harness is provided that is insulated so as not to conduct electricity circumferentially about the harness.

Cardiac harness

A cardiac harness for treating or preventing congestive heart failure is configured to be placed about at least a portion of a patient's heart so as to apply a mild compressive force on the heart. In one embodiment, the cardiac harness is configured so that the variation of load as a function of expansion through a selected range of expansion is represented generally in the form y=ax+b, and the value of 'a' does not increase as the percent expansion increases.

The invention consists of an endoluminal prosthesis adapted for placement at a bifurcation site within the body. The stent or stent-graft may be constructed to have segments of differing structural properties. A section of the stent-graft may be constructed to have a single-lumen tubular stent member covering a multilumen graft member. The stent-graft may comprise at least two modular components adapted for in situ assembly. An extended cylindrical interference fit may be used to seal the modular components.

Kink-resistant bifurcated prosthesis

The apparatus includes and elongate body having a proximal portion and a distal portion. The body includes a cavity sized to contain a cardiac harness in a compacted configuration and also includes a plurality of elongate push rods movable with respect to the body. The cardiac harness is releasably connected to each of the push rods such that advancement of the push rods in a distal direction moves the harness from a compacted configuration, within the cavity, to an expanded configuration, outside the cavity. The apparatus also includes a releasing member for releasing the connections between the push rods and the harness upon actuation of the releasing member by a user.

Cardiac harness delivery device and method

The invention is directed to an expandable stent for implantation in a body lumen, such as an artery, and a method for making it from a single length of tubing. The stent consists of a plurality of radially expandable cylindrical elements generally aligned on a common axis and interconnected by one or more interconnective elements. The individual radially expandable cylindrical elements consist of ribbon-like material disposed in an undulating pattern. Portions of the expanded stent project outwardly into engagement with the vessel wall to more securely attach the stent.

Expandable stents and method for making same

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Lilip Lau