Medtronic, Inc.

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University System of Maryland

Anteris Technologies Corporation

Thoratec Corporation

Medtronic Vascular Galway Limited

Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Medtronic Ave, Inc.

Claret Medical, Inc.

Gt Metabolic Solutions, Inc.

Ballast Medical Inc.

Minnetronix Neuro, Inc.

St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.

Tc1 LLC

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Philip Jon Haarstad

Christopher P Olig

David M Blaeser

Todd A Krinke

Michel Gagner

James R Keogh

Paul T Rothstein

Scott Eric Jahns

Igor Kovalsky

Cynthia T Clague

Raymond W Usher

Niall F Duffy

Alex Alden Peterson

Darren A Janzig

Carine Hoarau

Jason L Quill

Shyam Gokaldas

Steven H Reichenbach

Ana Menk

Tuan Minh Doan

Edwin J Hlavka

Jeffrey D Sandstrom

David J Blaeser

Steven C Christian

Dennis L Brooks

Finn Olavi Rinne

James S Gammie

Ryan Thomas Bauer

Matthew J Birdsall

Robert D Lashinski

James Luis Badia

Joel R Racchini

Paul A Pignato

James Clayton Peacock, Iii

Antony Jonathan Fields

Daniel Wayne Fifer

Brian Dale Nelson

Karen Pilney Montpetit

Susheel Deshmukh

Mark R Christianson

Randall T Lashinski

Matthew Rust

Eric Norman Rudie

Edward J Anderson

Adam Shipley

Scott A Olson

Kshitija P Garde

Padraig Savage

Stephen Nash

Dennis W Wahr

Michael Krivoruchko

Shawn Patterson

Vegard Tuseth

Stephen Kenneth Sundquist

Andrew R Miller

Michael J Hobday

Frank Harewood

Daniel M Gelfman

David J S Kim

William Morris Leonard Neethling

William Steinberg

Scott Bliss

George Hsu

Douglas H Gubbin

J Donald Hill

Thomas Daigle

Marian Patricia Lally

Brian Ross

Stephen Roller

Robert Reetz

Ann Margaret Thomas

Chetan Pasrija

Rachael Quinn

Kenneth Dale Warnock, Jr

Knut Harald Klepsvik

Nina Boiadjieva

Shuo-Hsiu Chang

Olga M Stanescu

Cameron Paul Purcell

Gary W Guenst

Whittaker Ian Hamill

Devin Gosal

Andrew E Reed

Don William Eldon Evans

Corey D Brown

Dave Mathieu

Wayne Paterson

Antonio Colombo

Gianfranco Pellegrini

Marian Creaven

Donald M Haarstad

Dennis N Harvey

Douglas J Krone

Stanley E Kluge

Anthony Todd Hessburg

Geoffrey A Orth

Matthew Keillor

James N Harrington

Kevin Drisko

Beau Fisher

Apparatuses, components, devices, methods, and systems for an adjustable firmness mattress are provided. An example rectangular shaped adjustable firmness mattress extends lengthwise from a head end to a foot end, widthwise from a first side to a second side, and depth-wise from a top side to a bottom side. The example mattress may include an adjustable firmness support layer disposed between the bottom side of the mattress and the top side of the mattress. The adjustable firmness support layer may include at least one rotatable assembly having an orientation-specific firmness, a bridge assembly disposed between the at least one rotatable assembly and the top side of the mattress; and a support assembly disposed between the at least one rotatable assembly and the bottom side of the mattress.

Adjustable firmness mattress system

Medical devices for accessing the central nervous system, as well as making and using medical devices, are disclosed. An example medical device may include an expandable access sheath having a proximal end region and a distal end region. The expandable access sheath may be designed to shift between a first configuration and an expanded configuration. The expandable access sheath may include a tubular body having one or more axial support members disposed along the tubular body. The medical device may include an expansion member designed to shift the expandable access sheath between the first configuration and the expanded configuration.

Medical device for accessing the central nervous system

Vascular filters and deflectors and methods for filtering bodily fluids. A blood filtering assembly can capture embolic material dislodged or generated during an endovascular procedure to inhibit or prevent the material from entering the cerebral vasculature. A blood deflecting assembly can deflect embolic material dislodged or generated during an endovascular procedure to inhibit or prevent the material from entering the cerebral vasculature.

Systems and methods for protecting the cerebral vasculature

Devices, systems, and methods for crimping a medical device are disclosed. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to devices, systems, and methods for reducing the diameter of a collapsible heart valve prosthesis to be loaded onto a delivery device. The devices, systems, and methods using at least one funnel to crimp the heart valve prosthesis and load it onto the delivery system.

Devices and methods for crimping a medical device

A packaging system for storing a deployable medical device within a sterilized environment includes a sealed container; a tray disposed within the sealed container; a catheter assembly comprising at least one sheath; a deployable medical device engaged with the catheter assembly; and a sterilizing fluid. The tray comprises a first chamber; a second chamber in fluid communication therewith; and at least a third chamber between the first and second chambers, and in fluid communication with at least the first chamber. The deployable medical device is disposed within the tray in a storage configuration, in which the deployable medical device is disposed within the first chamber in a partially deployed state distally from a distal end of the catheter and the catheter assembly spans between the first chamber and the second chamber. The sterilizing fluid contacts at least a part of the deployable medical device in the storage configuration.

Sterilized packaging system for catheter

A replacement heart valve assembly where the valve is loaded into the catheter distally, and separately from the stent. The valve has a locking member and the stent has a locking channel. Once in the expanded position, the valve is pulled towards the stent until the locking member is engaged with the locking channel.

Replacement heart valve assembly with a valve loaded distally from a stent

A system for percutaneous delivery of a stented prosthetic heart valve. The system includes a delivery device with a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve attached thereto and a delivery sheath with an opening on a distal end thereof. The delivery sheath includes a funnel on a proximal end thereof. The delivery device is inserted into the funnel of the delivery sheath. As the delivery device is advanced into the funnel, the expanded heart valve is compressed by the shape of the funnel into a crimped arrangement. The delivery device further advances the heart valve distally within the delivery sheath past the delivery sheath opening. The delivery device is advanced relative to the delivery sheath in transitioning the heart valve from a crimped arrangement to the expanded and deployed arrangement.

Transcatheter prosthetic heart valve delivery system and method

A valve for endovascular heart valve repair that provides improved sealing of the valve against the native wall. The valve assembly has a sealing region at a distal end of the valve. The sealing region having a delivery position and a sealing position, wherein in the delivery position, the sealing region has a first length, and in the sealing position, the sealing region has a second length less than the first length and a thickness in the sealing position is greater in the sealing position than in the delivery position.

Inverted heart valve for transcatheter valve replacement

A system for endoscopically forming an anastomosis between two naturally adjacent points in the digestive tract. The system utilizes elongate magnetic devices that, when connected across a tissue boundary, necrose tissue until an anastomosis forms and the devices are passed naturally. Despite the elongate shape of the devices, the resulting anastomosis is substantially round. As such, round anastomoses can be formed having increased diameters merely by increasing the lengths of the devices, obviating the need for wider endoscopes.

Incisionless gastric bypass system

An intracorporeal device is provided for supporting heart function of a patient. The intracorporeal device is configured to be secured across at least two anatomical walls of the heart. The intracorporeal device is configured to be secured to one or more anatomical walls by a connector. The connector is arranged to be positioned across one or more anatomical walls.

Ventricular assist device and method

In some embodiments, a method includes a shaft having a side catheter guide attached thereto via a guide coupler into an inferior vena cava and a superior vena cava such that the guide coupler is disposed in a right atrium, and applying a distal force to a proximal portion of the side catheter guide such that a distal end of the side catheter guide deflects laterally about the guide coupler towards a septum. The method further includes extending a side catheter that is disposed within the side catheter guide distally from the side catheter guide towards and into contact with the septum. The method further includes, with the side catheter in contact with the septum, extending a septum penetrator that is slidably disposed within the side catheter distally from the side catheter such that the septum penetrator pierces the septum.

Apparatus and method for septal punch

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Chanhassen, MN, United States of America

Philip Jon Haarstad