Medtronic, Inc.

Medtronic Vascular Galway Limited

Stephen J Peter

Patrick Edward Macaulay

Adam Shipley

Susheel Deshmukh

Niall F Duffy

Patrick Griffin

Evelyn Birmingham

Joshua J Dwork

Marc A Anderson

Gavin Kenny

Kate Corish

John P Shanahan

Deirdre Bridget McGowan Smyth

Constantin Ciobanu

Donna Barrett

Bernard Patrick Mulvihill

Gustaf L P Belt

A K M Masud

Luke McCartney

Hubert K Yeung

Siyan Som

Shishira Nagesh

Matthew Spurchise

Ahmed M Elmouelhi

John Milroy

Hubert K Young

Systems and methods for delivering and implanting heart valves are disclosed. The delivery systems can include an integrated introducer. The integrated introducer can include a sheath having an inner diameter that is smaller than the outer diameter of a delivery capsule of the delivery system and an outer diameter that is approximately equal to the outer diameter of the delivery capsule. The integrated introducer can include a hub having a hemostatic seal. The hub can have a locking mechanism configured to fix the integrated introducer in place on the delivery system.

Delivery system with inline sheath

An elastic percutaneous elastic introducer sheath is disclosed which can locally expand and reduce to accommodate a transcatheter medical device. The elastic introducer sheath includes a non-circumferentially continuous elastic frame, a liner, and a jacket.

Elastic introducer sheath

Distal tips for use with delivery catheters are disclosed that are configured to maintain complete engagement between the distal tip and a distal opening of a sheath component of the delivery catheter so as to prevent separation therebetween and/or to prevent fish-mouthing of a distal leading edge of the sheath component during in vivo use. Distal tips so configured realize one or more of the objectives of safer tracking of the delivery catheter through the vasculature, safe crossing of the delivery catheter through structural components of the vasculature and heart, such as through native valves, and safe removal of the delivery catheter post deployment.

Distal tip for a delivery catheter

Devices and methods for preparing a transcatheter heart valve system. The device includes a housing, sealing apparatuses and a port. The housing forms a chamber sized to receive a prosthetic valve and a portion of a delivery device. During use, the prosthesis is seated in the chamber, and the sealing apparatuses operated to seal the chamber about the delivery device. Air bubbles in a liquid delivered through the delivery device and to the chamber are removed from the system via the port, thereby flushing the system. Further, the device is manipulated to permit loading of the prosthesis into the delivery device in an air bubble-free environment.

Devices and methods for preparing a transcatheter heart valve system

An elastic percutaneous elastic introducer sheath is disclosed which can locally expand and reduce to accommodate a transcatheter medical device. The elastic introducer sheath includes a non-circumferentially continuous wire structure, a liner, and a jacket.

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Santa Rosa, CA, United States of America

Stephen J Peter