Crospon Limited

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland Unlimited Company

Richard Kiely

John O'Dea

Adrian McHugh

David Bishop

Adrian Mchugh

A system for delivering a replacement heart valve implant may include the implant including an expandable framework and leaflets coupled to the framework, and a delivery device including a handle and an elongate catheter extending from the handle. The catheter includes an outer sheath and an inner shaft movably disposed within the outer sheath. The implant is releasably coupled to the inner shaft. The inner shaft includes an orientation lumen extending longitudinally within the inner shaft, the orientation lumen being offset from a central guidewire lumen of the inner shaft. The delivery device includes an orientation mandrel disposed within the orientation lumen, the orientation mandrel extending distally from the handle to a distal end proximate a closed distal end of the orientation lumen. The orientation mandrel is operably coupled to an orientation mechanism of the handle configured to apply compressive force or tensile force to the orientation mandrel.

Rotational alignment of medical implant

A pressure monitoring apparatus () for monitoring pressure of a liquid () in a vessel () comprises a housing () within which an airtight gas chamber () is formed. A pressure sensor () is located in the housing () monitors the pressure of a gas in the gas chamber (). A conduit () having a communicating bore () of total length Lcommunicates the gas chamber () with the vessel (). As the pressure of the liquid in the vessel () increases, a liquid/gas interface meniscus () travels along a working length Lof the communicating bore () from the second end () thus increasing the pressure in the gas chamber () to the pressure of the liquid, which is monitored by the pressure sensor (). The total length Lof the conduit () is greater than the working length Lof the conduit () to avoid the liquid/gas interface meniscus () reaching the first end () of the communicating bore (). The pressure monitoring apparatus () may also be mounted at the distal end () of a balloon catheter () for monitoring the pressure of a liquid inflating medium inflating the balloon () of the balloon catheter (), which may be an electrically conductive liquid, with the gas isolating the pressure sensor () from the liquid inflating medium.

Pressure monitoring apparatus, a catheter and a method for monitoring pressure in a liquid

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Richard Kiely