Rainbow Medical Ltd.

Bluewind Medical Ltd.

Cardiovalve Ltd.

Valtech Cardio Ltd.

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Bio Control Medical (b.c.m.) Ltd.

Brainsgate Ltd.

G.i. View Ltd.

Nano-retina, Inc.

Ams Research Corporation

West Pharma. Services Il, Ltd.

Earlysense Ltd.

Medimop Medical Projects Ltd.

Hill-rom Services, Inc.

Symap Medical (suzhou), Limited

Yossi Gross

Oz Cabiri

Gil Hacohen

Gideon Fostick

Eran Miller

Ehud Cohen

Tal Reich

Zev Sohn

Yuval Zipory

Gur Oron

Bar Eytan

Hadar Better

Amir Gross

Eli Aharoni

Eran Benjamin

Ilan Uchitel

Shai Ayal

Israel Nissenkorn

Alon Shalev

Avner Halperin

Yoseph Weitzman

Gideon Dotan

Amir Dagan

Francesco Maisano

Yaron Herman

Liat Tsoref

Gal Ariav

Anton Plotkin

Nitai Hanani

Shai Vaingast

David Lifschitz

Alex Tendler

Ra'anan Gefen

Meir Kutzik

Tuvia Liran

Offer Glasberg

Yehuda Zadok

Jacob Benarie

Itzik Avneri

Ori Weisberg

Yotam Reisner

Danny Neeman

Michael Kardosh

Dov Tamarkin

Tal Hammer

Tal Sheps

Zvi Nitzan

Boris Degtiar

Itzhak Pinhas

Benad Goldwasser

Daniela Mavor

Rotem Neeman

Eran Shor

Uriel Aba Pomerantz

Guri Oron

Moshe Eshkol

Shlomo Ronen

Ruti Alon

Yuval Mandelbaum

Meni Iamberger

Oded Meiri

Ran Hezkiahu

Tamir Ben-David

Daniel H Lange

Leonid Yanovitz

Nir Armoni

Giora Arbel

Nurit Harel

Aharon Daffan

Adi Lorian

Noam Kinrot

Igor Gindin

Moshe Elazar

Haim Azhari

Radwan Khawaled

Ofir Rimer-Cohen

Karin Aharonson-Raz

Amir Kishon

Nir Lilach

Raphael Benary

Tanhum Feld

Eliahu Eliachar

Guy Meger

Hernan Altman

Shalom Luski

Opher Kinrot

Shlomo Lewkowicz

Avinoam Dayan

Tova Neufeld

Yaakov Milstain

Roman Karasik

Rani Mendelewicz

David Rigler

Aram Ayvazian

Dorit Raz Prag

Dan Sade Hochstadter

Yaron Tal

Gilad Magnazi

Ruth Alon

Amir Natan

An implantable LVAD system includes an implantable LVAD including an outflow cannula, which is couplable in fluid communication with a circulatory system of the patient at a first site; and an inflow cannula, which is couplable in fluid communication with the circulatory system at a second site upstream of the first site. The LVAD further includes a continuous-flow pump includes a first inlet in fluid communication with the inflow cannula, and a first outlet. The LVAD still further includes a pulsatile-flow pump includes a second inlet in fluid communication with the first outlet of the continuous-flow pump, and a second outlet in fluid communication with the outflow cannula. Control circuitry is configured to activate the continuous-flow pump to provide flow without synchronization with cardiac cycles of a heart of the patient, and activate the pulsatile-flow pump to provide pulsatile flow synchronized with the cardiac cycles. Other embodiments are also described.

Pulsatile ventricular assist devices

An implantable LVAD is provided that includes a pump shaped so as to define a pump chamber. The pump includes a tubular linear motor, which includes a magnetic piston, which includes a reciprocating one-way valve configured to allow downstream blood flow and inhibit upstream blood flow; and a stator, which is configured to magnetically drive the magnetic piston with reciprocating motion, so as to pump blood downstream during downstream motion of the magnetic piston while the reciprocating one-way valve is closed. The pump further includes a spring, which is arranged to store energy during upstream motion of the magnetic piston and release the stored energy during the downstream motion of the magnetic piston. Control circuitry is configured to activate the tubular linear motor to provide pulsatile flow synchronized with cardiac cycles. Other configurations are also described.

A method for treating an intervertebral disc of a subject is provided, the method including delivering a growth factor to a nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc. At least one intra-pulposus exposed electrode surface is implanted in the nucleus pulposus. At least one extra-pulposus exposed electrode surface is implanted in a body of the subject outside the nucleus pulposus. The growth factor is supported by activating control circuitry to drive the intra-pulposus and the extra-pulposus exposed electrode surfaces to electroosmotically drive nutrient-containing fluid into the nucleus pulposus. Other embodiments are also described.

Synergistic therapies for inter vertebral disc degeneration

A method is provided that includes providing an electrode, which includes a wire that has a wire diameter of between 75 and 125 microns. The wire includes a non-electrically-insulated current-application longitudinal segment, which, in the absence of any applied forces, is coiled and has (i) an outer coil diameter of between 3 and 7 times the wire diameter, and (ii) an entire longitudinal length of between 5 and 35 mm. The wire further includes an electrically-insulated lead longitudinal segment, which has an entire longitudinal length of at least 10 mm, in the absence of any applied forces. At least a portion of the electrode is implanted in a body of a subject. Other embodiments are also described.

Method for disc therapy

First and second atrial arms and first and second ventricular arms are advanced to the heart. The first ventricular arm is moved distally by applying a pulling force to the first ventricular arm at a first fixed connection point that is at a portion of the first ventricular arm that is farthest from a first articulation site of the first atrial arm and the first ventricular arm, and the second ventricular arm is moved distally by applying a pulling force to the second ventricular arm at a second fixed connection point that is at a portion of the second ventricular arm that is farthest from a second articulation site of the second atrial arm and the second ventricular arm. Subsequently, the first native leaflet is clamped between the first arms, and the second native leaflet is clamped between the second arms. Other embodiments are also described.

Method for use at a heart valve

A method is provided for stimulating a sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) of a patient, the method including inserting a tube and an electrode mount into a nasal cavity of the patient and advancing the tube along a floor of the nasal cavity to near a posterior end of an inferior turbinate. One or more electrodes of the electrode mount are deployed superiorly away from the tube while the tube is disposed along the floor of the nasal cavity and the electrode mount is disposed within the nasal cavity, so as to bring at least one of the one or more electrodes into contact with a wall of the nasal cavity. A current configured to stimulate the SPG via the wall is applied to the one or more electrodes. Other embodiments are also described.

Blood flow enhancement therapy systems

A method, for use at a mitral valve of a heart of a subject, is provided which includes advancing a transluminal sheath into a femoral vein of the subject, through an inferior vena cava of the subject, into a right atrium of the subject, and transseptally into a left atrium of the subject. A surrounding-sheath is advanced out of a distal end of the transluminal sheath, into the left atrium, and toward a commissure of the mitral valve. An anchor is implanted by advancing the anchor out of the surrounding-sheath into a left ventricle of the subject, such that the anchor helically wraps around left ventricular mitral valve tissue. The surrounding-sheath is then extracted from the heart and then, a guide wire is advanced through the transluminal sheath. Other embodiments are also described.

Helical anchor implantation

Apparatus is provided that includes a first electrode, configured to be implanted at a first anatomical site in a nucleus pulposus of an intervertebral disc of a subject, and a second electrode, configured to be implanted at a second anatomical site outside the nucleus pulposus of the disc. A control unit is configured to detect a pressure difference between the first and the second anatomical sites by detecting a streaming voltage between the first and the second electrodes, and, in response to the detected pressure difference, drive fluid between the nucleus pulposus and outside the nucleus pulposus by applying a treatment voltage between the first and the second electrodes. Other embodiments are also described.

Electroosmotic tissue treatment

A sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) stimulating device for stimulating an SPG of a patient is provided. The SPG stimulating device includes a sheath having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, the distal end portion shaped to define at least one electrode opening. A nasal stabilizer is disposed around the sheath and configured to stabilize the sheath with respect to a nostril of a nose of the patient when the sheath is disposed within the nose. An electrode mount is slidably disposed within the sheath, and at least one electrode is coupled to the electrode mount and deployable out of the sheath through the at least one electrode opening to position the at least one electrode to stimulate the SPG. Other applications are also described.

Blood flow enhancement therapy system

Apparatus for monitoring a clinical condition of a subject is described. A motion sensor senses motion of the subject without contacting or viewing the subject, and generates a sensed motion signal responsive to the sensed motion. A signal analyzer is adapted to analyze the motion signal to identify a cough in the subject. Other applications are also described.

Monitoring a condition of a subject

An implant is implanted into a tissue of a subject. The implant includes a circuitry unit that houses circuitry, and one or more outwardly-facing electrodes that are electrically coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry unit is shaped to define a height that is smaller than (i) a longest length, and (ii) a longest width of the circuitry unit. The implant is oriented with respect to the tissue, such that: (a) the height of the circuitry unit is disposed along a superficial-to-deep axis with respect to skin of the subject, (b) the implant is positioned to stimulate a nerve underlying the implant, and (c) the implant is positioned in a manner that inhibits electrical conduction from the outwardly-facing electrodes into skin of the subject. Other embodiments are also described.

Wireless neurostimulators

A prosthetic aortic valve is provided including a frame including interconnected stent struts arranged so as to define interconnected stent cells. A plurality of prosthetic leaflets are coupled to the frame so as to allow blood flow in a downstream direction and inhibit blood flow in an upstream direction when the prosthetic aortic valve is in an expanded deployment configuration. Circuitry is mechanically coupled to the frame. An electrode is mechanically coupled to the frame. A printed circuit board (PCB) is shaped so as to define an elongate portion. An electrical lead electrically couples the electrode to the circuitry, and is integral with the elongate portion of the PCB. The elongate portion of the PCB is mechanically coupled to some of the interconnected stent struts of the frame. Other embodiments are also described.

Prosthetic aortic valve pacing systems

Prosthetic heart valves and methods of use of prosthetic heart valves may be provided. In one implementation, a prosthetic heart valve may include an annular spacer configured for implantation with a native heart valve opening and a central valve section configured for disposal within the annular spacer. The central valve section may include at least one anchoring protrusion configured to anchor the central valve section against axial movement relative to the annular spacer. During deployment, the central valve section may be expanded radially within the heart into an at least partially-expanded configuration while at least a portion of the central valve section is situated outside of a space opening of the annular spacer, and moved upstream while remaining in the at least partially-expanded configuration until the anchoring protrusion engages the annular spacer.

Valve prosthesis configured for deployment in annular spacer

A heart valve repair system includes a delivery sheath and an implant that includes a frame including a braided structure of intertwining strands and having a surface configured to contact an upstream surface of a native heart valve. First and second gripping members are coupled to the frame, each including atrial and ventricular arms. The implant is disposed in the sheath in a delivery state in which the frame defines a wall fully surrounding a central longitudinal axis of the implant. The distal end of the wall defines a distal opening of the frame. The distal end of the wall is disposed proximally to the second end of the ventricular arm of each of the gripping members. The second end of each ventricular arm moves toward the axis of the implant more than the first end moves toward the axis. Other embodiments are also described.

Implant for heart valve

A prosthetic aortic valve is provided including a frame including interconnected stent struts arranged so as to define interconnected stent cells. Upstream ones of the stent cells are located in an upstream half of the frame and define respective upstream peaks. An electrode is disposed at or near an upstream peak of one of the upstream stent cells. First and Second upstream stent struts of the one of the upstream stent cells are joined at the upstream peak. Coupling material is shaped so as to define a first strip that is mechanically coupled to the first upstream stent strut, a second strip that is mechanically coupled to the second upstream stent strut, and a junction, which couples together the first and the second strips, such that the first and the second strips together couple the electrode to the frame at or near the upstream peak. Other embodiments are also described.

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Yossi Gross