Proarc Medical Ltd.

Coramaze Technologies Gmbh

Nitinotes Ltd.

Raz Bar-On

Stefan Daniel Menzl

Yair Feld

Niklas Maximilian Nathe

Shai Golan

Boaz Harari

Dmitry Golom

Roni Shabat

Itshak Cohen

Thomas Gerhardt

Raz Ben Yaakov

Yoav Lengel

Marina Dror

Gilad Heftman

Leah Kidney

Asaf Asherov

Eli Shapira

Shabat Roni

Suture clips configured to be placed in a predetermined path of a suturing needle that advances through a device inserted to a body cavity, and remotely operated from that position to secure and clamp suturing. In some embodiments, a suture tightening device is placed in the predetermined path and configured to capture the suture and shorten a length of tissue-engaged suture by pulling on the suture. In some embodiments, sensors are placed along the needle path and used to provide an indication of needle position and/or status.

Suturing with an endoluminal gastroplasty device

Apparatus and methods are described for treatment of a urethra that is constricted due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). A positioning device is used to determine a location of the area of the urethra that is constricted and is to be treated. An execution device includes a dilation balloon, a cutter, an implant carrier, and an implant, the implant and the implant carrier both being disposed outside the outer surface of the dilation balloon. The urethra is dilated by expanding the dilation balloon, and a cut is formed in the inner surface of the urethra using the cutter. The implant is released into the cut within the inner surface of the urethra subsequent to the cutter forming the cut in the inner surface of the urethra, to thereby maintain the urethra in a dilated state. Other embodiments are also described.

Methods and devices for urethral treatment

The invention relates to a heart implant comprising an attachment element (), particularly a tubular attachment element for attaching a sheath (), preferably having a sheath () being coaxially positioned around at least a part of the attachment element () and fixed to it, the attachment element () having a lower end () and an upper end () and several strips () at least at one of the ends, preferably being split into several strips at least at one of the ends (), preferably only at the upper end (), the strips () forming an expandable anchoring cage, particularly for fixing the heart implant to a lumen of the heart, preferably the atrium, by surface contact between an exterior surface of the expandable cage and an interior lumen surface, the strips () of the anchoring cage ending in respective strip tips () at the end of their extension in the compressed state, particularly during delivery through a catheter (), the strip tips () forming the distal or proximal end of the implant, particularly a distal end being released first out of the catheter, wherein the implant furthermore comprises a fixation means () to which each respective strip tip () is releasable fixed, preferably furthermore comprising a releasing means () for releasing the connection between fixation means () and strip tips ().

Heart implant

The invention relates to a heart implant comprising a tubular attachment element () for attaching a sheath, particularly having a sheath being coaxially positioned around at least a part of the tubular attachment element () and fixed to it, the tubular attachment element () having a lower end () and an upper end () and being split into several strips () at the upper end (), the strips () forming an expandable cage (C), particularly for fixing the heart implant to the atrium of the heart by surface contact between an exterior surface of the expandable cage (C) and an interior atrium surface, wherein in an expanded state the strips () extend from the upper end () towards the lower end () of the tubular attachment element () and form an expanded cage (C) being positioned around at least an upper part of the tubular attachment element ().

A dilation device () for an intra-body lumen, for example, a urethra partially occluded by an enlarged prostate in the form of a resilient curved body configured to be implanted in a cut around the lumen, and a method for dilating such a lumen by implanting a dilation device in a cut around the outside of the lumen. Also, a deployment system () including a delivery device for the implant, and a device for dilating the lumen before and while the cut is being made, and a method of using the implant and the deployment system. The implant may be formed of a strip or a coiled wire. The cut may be performed in part by the implant. The cut may be performed by a sharp edge, and/or by application of electrical current to the area being cut, or by a piezoelectric transducer.

Devices for urethral treatment

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