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Scott M Russell

Amir Belson

Stephen J Kleshinski

Dominic D Grey

John Ellwood Thomas

Nick Stanek

Terrence Phillip Everson

Don Akira Tanaka

Joel W Pfister

Jim Wohlford

Daniel F Brady

Thomas J Batcher

Thomas P Berg

Robert J Plantikow

Lutz Biedermann

Wilfried Matthis

Michael Gabriel Tal

Bob H Katz

Scott P Carpenter

Raghuveer Basude

Minh Q Dinh

Masao Drexel

Tracy Lopes

Keith Edward Olson

Jay S Dittmer

Terry James Klos

Gregory G Griese

Raymond J Hull, Jr

Stephan Maria Hubig

Pramod Shantaram Mavinkurve

Mari Hou

Brian A Chute

Michelle Bartning

Kirsten Freislinger Luehrs

Bryan Michael Anderson

Jamie W Lerbs

Paul B Swick

Curtis Gross

Kelvin D Sundeen

Erik Nicholas Olson

Joe Vail

Alex Nedvetsky

Trevor J Wihelmson

An embolic protection device comprises a tubular filter body attached to a sheath. The tubular filter body has an open upstream end and a generally closed downstream end for capturing emboli. A self-opening passage through the emboli capture end of the tubular filter body allows multiple catheters to be advanced from the sheath or otherwise into the filter body simultaneously or sequentially. The sheath is attached to a peripheral support structure near the emboli capture end of the filter body to facilitate deployment and retrieval of the filter body through a restraining delivery catheter.

Multi-access intraprocedural embolic protection device

A prosthetic heart valve delivery catheter includes an embolic filter to provide integrated embolic protection to inhibit the release of emboli into the aorta, the aortic arch or branch vessels, and other vasculature during transvascular heart valve replacement procedures. The embolic filter will usually be fixedly or movably attached to a shaft of the delivery catheter proximal of the prosthetic heart valve.

Catheter with integrated embolic protection device

Embolic protection elements are integrated with a catheter or access sheath for any catheter. A catheter with an integrated embolic protection element comprises a catheter shaft, an embolic filter slidably mounted on a distal portion of the shaft, a proximal stop for limiting the proximal movement of the embolic filter, and a distal stop for limiting the distal movement of the embolic filter. The filter comprises a porous mesh material defining a collection chamber for captured emboli and has a collapsed and a deployed configuration. The filter may be collapsed by an access sheath used with the catheter. An access sheath may comprise a tubular main body and an embolic filter mounted on the distal portion of the tubular main body. The embolic filter may evert into the central lumen of the sheath or may be constrained on the exterior of the sheath with a larger diameter outer tube.

Integrated embolic protection devices

A method of manufacturing an intrauterine device (IUD) for contraception that has a desired copper elution rate is described. The method may involve selecting an elongate shape memory member comprising a first metal having a first galvanic potential, selecting at least one attachment member comprising a second metal having a second galvanic potential that is different from the first galvanic potential, attaching the attachment member(s) to the shape memory member, and shaping the shape memory member to form a frame of the intrauterine contraceptive device. The first metal and the second metal are specifically selected as materials for the shape memory member and the attachment member(s), in order to achieve the desired copper elution rate.

Intrauterine device with controlled copper ion elution

The embolic protection device comprises an embolic filter attached to an inner sheath. The embolic filter includes at least a first catheter access port and a second catheter port. At least the first catheter port will typically be radially expandable to receive catheters of different diameters and will be located at an atypical end of an aero conical structure at a downstream end of the filter.

Introducer sheath with embolic protection

An intrauterine contraceptive device may include a frame made completely or partially of a first metal having a first galvanic potential and at least one metallic member coupled with the frame that is made of a second metal having a second galvanic potential different from the first galvanic potential. In some embodiments, the first galvanic potential may be more anodic than the second galvanic potential. In alternative embodiments, the first galvanic potential may be more cathodic than the second galvanic potential. In one embodiment, the first metal is Nitinol, and the second metal is copper. In some embodiments, the first and second galvanic potentials may be configured to achieve, at least approximately, a desired copper ion elution rate for the intrauterine device.

Full motion display mount

Embolic Protection elements are integrated with a catheter or access sheath for any catheter. A catheter shaft has an embolic filter slidably mounted on a distal portion of a catheter shaft. A proximal stop for limits proximal movement of the embolic filter, and a distal stop for limits distal movement of the embolic filter. The filter has a porous mesh material defining a collection chamber for captured emboli and has a collapsed and a deployed configuration. The filter may be collapsed by an access sheath used with the catheter. An access sheath may have a tubular main body and an embolic filter mounted on the distal portion of the tubular main body. The embolic filter may evert into the central lumen of the sheath or may be constrained on the exterior of the sheath with a larger diameter outer tube.

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