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Biotronik Mess-und Therapiegeraete Gmbh & Co. Ingenie&uuml;rbuero Berlin

Biotronik Mess-und Therapiegeracte Gmbh & Co. Ingenieurbuero Berlin

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Biotronik Se Co. Kg

Max Schaldach

Tran Thong

Dennis Digby

Armin Bolz

Paul Wyborny

Curt Kranz

Gernot Kolberg

Indra B Nigam

Daniel Lootz

Helmut Hutten

David F Hastings

Sven Poga

Gary Rolison

Robert R Weyant

Nawzer Mehta

Gustav Boheim

Wolfgang Geistert

Erhard Flach

Volker Lang

Heinz Mueller

Klaus-Peter Schmitz

Jens Gobrecht

Detlef Behrend

Wolfgang Meyer

Karsten Koop

Robert Schmiedl

Matthias Gratz

Gregor Niewalda

Joachim Witte

Stefan Eck

Wiebke Neumann

Marcel Starke

Reinhard Blaser

J Walter Keller

Boris Frauenstein

Werner Uhrlandt

Bernhard D&ouml;llgast

Roland Jacobsen

Axel Ulbrich

David Hastings

Barry D Kulp

Niels Mueller

Klaus Olach

Dietmar Esperschidt

Patrick Schauerte

A method for manufacturing an implant and an implant, in particular an intraluminal endoprosthesis, including a body having a coating on at least a portion of the surface thereof, and the degradation of which can be influenced from the outside in a targeted manner, the method having the following steps:

Implant and method for manufacturing same

An active medical implantable device with at least two diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions is constructed from separate active implant modules (to) which are adapted to the respective desired functions and can be coupled to each other.

Active implantable medical device with at least two diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions

Housing for medical implant, such as cardiac pacemaker, defibrillator, cardioverter, etc. Housing including hollow housing and terminal body attached to hollow housing, which has electrical terminal(s), situated in an externally accessible cavity of the terminal body, for connecting an electrode line, and terminal body including a base body made of electrically insulating plastic, connected to hollow housing and carries electrical supply lines and electrical contacts, which are electrically connected thereto, for the electrical terminal so that the contacts are connected via the electrical supply lines to electrical components in the interior of the hollow housing, electrical supply lines being welded to the electrical contacts and the electrical supply lines and electrical contacts, which are welded to one another, being embedded in the base body and thus fixed in their final position, and the base body being glued to the hollow housing using an adhesive between hollow housing and terminal body.

Housing for a medical implant

A method of storing signals having a course over time in an implantable medical device, and/or transmitting the signals out of the device and out of the patient's body, with the course over time being detected in the device, particularly at predetermined time intervals with a constant sampling interval, and a sequence of signal samples being obtained therefrom, of which a partial quantity is stored and/or transmitted as the result of a selection made with a predetermined selection criterion, with the selection criterion being the first derivation of the course over time of the signals according to time, and with the selection being made such that the first derivation of the straight-line connection between an nth and the (n&#x2212;1)th signal sample is determined and compared to the first derivation of the straight-line connection between the(n&#x2212;1)thnthsignal sample and the last-stored and/or last-transmitted signal sample, and thenth(n&#x2212;1)thsignal sample is then stored and/or transmitted as the new last signal sample exactly when these first derivations differ by more than a predetermined value.

Method and apparatus for storing signals in an implantable medical device

An arrangement for determining the heart rate (f) or the refractory time of the cardiac tissue, particularly for detecting tachycardia or fibrillation, has an electrode (E) for sensing heart action signals (SIG), an input stage, connected to the electrode, for processing the heart action signals, a refractory member for ascertaining a refractory time value of the arrangement, in each case after a predetermined segment of a heart action signal, and a processing device, connected to the output of the input stage or of the refractory member, for determining the rate of the heart action signals, processed with blanking of the component that occurs during the refractory time, or for determining the refractory time value of the cardiac tissue. The arrangement further includes a device which is connected at least indirectly to the output of the processing device or of the input stage for automatically adjusting the refractory time of the refractory member as a function of a previously determined value of the heart rate or of a signal parameter of a previously determined heart action signal.

Arrangement for determining a heart rate by automatically establishing the optimal refractory time for heart rate determination

A stent has a surface with an irregular coating formed on that surface. The irregular coating provides coating islands, especially coating islands that are substantially round. In some embodiments, the coating islands are arranged at a greater spacing in regions involving a greater degree of local stretching of the stent surface upon stretching of the stent than in regions involving a lesser degree of local stretching of the stent surface. In other embodiments, the coating islands are smaller in regions involving a greater degree of local stretching of the stent surface upon stretching of the stent than in regions involving a lesser degree of local stretching of the stent surface.

Stent having discontinuous coating in the form of coating islands

A stent, in particular a coronary stent, for expansion from a first condition into an expanded second condition in which it holds a vessel in an expanded state, comprising a tubular body whose peripheral surface ( ) is formed by a number of annular support portions ( ) comprising bar elements ( ) which are connected in the longitudinal direction of the stent by way of connecting bars ( ), wherein the bar elements ( ) of at least a first support portion ( ) and a second support portion ( ) in adjacent relationship in a first direction ( ) extend in a meander configuration in the peripheral direction of the stent and the connecting bars ( ) to the second support portion ( ) engage in the region of the turning points ( ) of the first support portion ( ), which turning points face in the first direction ( ), wherein at least two adjacent connecting bars ( ) engage respectively in the region of a turning point ( ) of the second support portion ( ), which turning point projects in a second direction ( ) in opposite relationship to the first direction ( ).

Stent

Evaluation method and apparatus for determining the time stationarity of measured physiological signals

The invention concerns a method and a device for crimping a stent onto a balloon of a balloon catheter. The stent is arranged on the balloon so that an outside surface of the balloon and an inside surface of the stent contact each other to form a combination of balloon and stent. The combination is compressed to crimp the stent onto the balloon. The invention is distinguished in that the combination is compressed to varying degrees along the longitudinal axis of the combination.

Method and device for crimping a stent

An electrically active medical implant has a circuit ( ), at least one first battery ( ) to supply low current, and a second battery ( ) to supply high current into the circuit ( ), and a control device ( ) designed to disconnect the at least one first battery ( ) from circuit ( ), and to connect second battery ( ) to circuit ( ), where a capacitor ( ) connected in a parallel arrangement with battery ( ), where the capacitor can be charged by the first battery both during a first circuit status, during which the first battery is connected to circuit ( ), and during a second circuit status, during which circuit ( ) is connected only to second battery ( ), where control device ( ) again disconnects second battery ( ) from circuit ( ) at the end of the second circuit status, and connects the parallel arrangement consisting of first battery ( ) and capacitor ( ) to circuit ( ) for further energy supply.

Electrically active medical implant

Device for regulating heart rate and heart pumping force

An apparatus for the automatic performance of diagnostic and/or therapeutic actions in body cavities is provided with a base control unit, which is to be arranged extracorporally, and with a catheter-type actuator, which is coupled therewith and which is insertable in the corresponding body cavity and which, in the vicinity of its distal end, is provided with a diagnostically active detection equipment and/or a therapeutically active treatment equipment, and which, at least in the vicinity of its distal end, is provided with an actuation mechanism, which is triggered by the base control unit, for advance and/or twist and turn control of the actuator.

Apparatus for the automatic performance of diagnostic and/or therapeutic actions in body cavites

An electrode arrangement is provided having an electrode line which has a closed casing for sealing off its interior relative to the surrounding area. At its distal end, electrically conducting surface regions serve as electrodes. A fixing mechanism anchors the distal end in a body tissue, in particular heart tissue and is adapted to be separable from the rest of the electrode line in such a way that the rest of the electrode line is also closed at its distal end when the fixing mechanism is separated off. The interior of the electrode line is sealed off relative to the surrounding area even when the fixing element is separated off. The electrode arrangement is characterized by a mechanism for separating off the fixing mechanism, which is adapted to effect separation by virtue of forces acting axially within the electrode line.

Break-away extractable lead

The invention concerns a sensor for obtaining information about the state of an organism for a medical therapy apparatus, preferably for a therapy apparatus for the electrostimulation or other treatment of the heart. The invention is distinguished by at least one sensor element for detecting molecular-genetic information. The invention further concerns a medical therapy apparatus having a sensor of that kind.

Medical therapy apparatus and sensor for acquiring molecular-genetic information for the apparatus

A catheter ( &prime;&Prime;), in particular for insertion into blood vessels of the human body, having at least one sensor ( ) which is arranged at the distal end ( ) of the catheter ( &prime;&Prime;) and which is adapted to pick up a spacing signal which is dependent on the spacing of the sensor ( ) with respect to the vessel wall, and control means ( &Prime;) which are connected to the sensor for taking over the spacing signal.

Catheter

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Max Schaldach