Medtronic Vascular Galway Limited

Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Medtronic, Inc.

Medtronic Vascular Galway Unlimited Company

Rodney Bell

Declan P Costello

Niall F Duffy

Frank Harewood

Matthew W Weston

Paula McDonnell

Mark Casley

Yogesh Darekar

Wayne M Falk

Matthew Baldwin

Noel Coyle

Fatemeh Fatemi Far

Gerry Clarke

Patrick Duane

David Quinn

Kevin Boyle

Cahal Mcveigh

Karl L Olney

Richard Gribbons

Kevin Treacy

John MacNamara

Ash Varma

Jamie Dunaway

Amy Hallak

David Michael Martin

Mike Conerney

David Nolan

Declan Costello

A prosthetic heart valve including a stent frame and a valve structure. The valve structure is disposed within a lumen of the stent frame. The stent frame is configured to self-expand from a compressed condition for transluminal delivery. The stent frame has a lattice structure forming a tubular shape defining a circumference and a plurality of closed cells arranged to define a band exhibiting a variable radial stiffness. The prosthesis can be deployed such that the band applies a minimal force on to anatomical locations relating to the heart's conductive pathways. A region of the band otherwise having low radial stiffness is located at or over a conductive pathway upon final implant.

Stented prosthetic heart valve with variable stiffness and methods of use

Transcatheter aortic valve prostheses for improving the cardiac function of a patient suffering from coronary artery disease. Transcatheter aortic valve prostheses include a valve component and a frame. The valve component includes valve leaflets and a skirt. The frame includes access cells that improve access to a patient's coronary arteries if further intervention is required and/or includes a window or conduction protection cell that is oriented to align with a portion of conduction system of the heart in situ to reduce conduction disturbances of the anatomy. Suture patterns for attaching a commissure to a commissure post of the frame, and for attaching a tissue bumper to the commissure post, are also described.

Transcatheter heart valve prostheses

A modular valve prosthesis includes an inflow stent, a valve component including a valve stent and a prosthetic valve, and an outflow stent. In a radially compressed delivery configuration, an inflow end of the valve stent is separated from an outflow end of the inflow stent and an outflow end of the valve stent is separated from an inflow end of the outflow stent. In a radially expanded deployed configuration, the inflow end of the valve stent is in contact with the outflow end of the inflow stent and the outflow end of the valve stent is in contact with the inflow end of the outflow stent. A delivery system includes a capsule including first, second and third sections and flexible first and second bands between respective sections. The modules of the modular valve prosthesis are aligned with the sections and gaps between the modules are aligned with the bands.

Modular valve prosthesis, delivery system, and method of delivering and deploying a modular valve prosthesis

A catheter and guide wire exchange system including a catheter that has a guide wire lumen with a guide way extending along a length of the proximal shaft. A guide member is slidably disposed about the proximal shaft for directing a guide wire into or out of the guide way and the guide wire lumen. A transition section joins the trilumen proximal shaft to a coaxial distal shaft.

Catheter and guide wire exchange system with improved proximal shaft and transition section

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Galway, Ireland

Rodney Bell