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6592620 Power system for an implantable heart pump  
A power system for an implantable heart pump is provided. The system includes two batteries, a microprocessor controller, two motor drivers, a multiplexer, two stators and a TET coil. During normal...
6592619 Heart wall actuation device for the natural heart  
An actuation system for assisting the operation of the natural heart comprises a framework for interfacing with a natural heart, through the wall of the heart, which includes an internal framework...
6589160 Heart wall tension reduction apparatus  
An apparatus for treatment of a failing heart by reducing the wall tension therein. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a tension member for drawing at least two walls of a heart chamber...
6589031 Turbo blood pump  
A turbo blood pump includes a housing 1 having a pump chamber 2, an inlet port 3, and an outlet port 4, an impeller 5 disposed rotatably in the pump chamber, an upper bearing 9 and a...
6587734 Cardio therapeutic heart sack  
This invention relates to implantable heart sack that can be equipped with pacemaker leads and/or defibrillation leads for the treatment of cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, tachycardia,...
6585635 Method and system for pericardial modification  
The invention adapts the pericardium for use as a pump bladder having a pump cavity formed by at least a portion of the pericardial space between the parietal pericardium and the visceral...
6579226 Delivery of cardiac constraint jacket  
A cardiac constraint jacket is formed of flexible material defining a volume between an open upper end and a lower end. The jacket is dimensioned for an apex of a patient's heart to be inserted...
6579223 Blood pump  
A pump especially designed for pumping blood comprises a bladder, the interior surface area and volume of which is changeable, i.e., it stretches and expands during the filling phase, and...
6572534 System and method for implanting a cardiac wrap  
A system and method for implanting a wrap on a patient's heart or other organ provides a wrap having finger-engagement members typically defining loops that encompass all or a substantial portion...
6572529 Intrapericardial assist method  
A surgical method for assisting cardiac function utilizes a balloon initially in a collapsed configuration. The balloon is inserted into an intrapericardial space about a patient's heart and is...
6569079 Ventricular assist device, accessory therefore and method of use  
A device comprises a bag with associated actuator means which can be selectively activated to permit the expansion of the bag and its consequent filing with a body of blood which flows towards the...
6567699 Defibrillating cardiac constraint  
A device for treating cardiac disease of a heart includes a jacket of flexible material defining a volume between an open upper end and a lower end. The jacket is dimensioned for an apex of the...
6561969 Method of reducing the volume of the heart  
Disclosed is a closure catheter, and methods for reducing the volume of a body cavity such as a vessel, or a portion of the heart. The closure catheter includes a plurality of deployable tissue...
6547821 Surgical procedures and devices for increasing cardiac output of the heart  
Methods and devices for passively assisting the cardiac function of the heart are disclosed. A method of increasing the cardiac output of a heart includes providing a site of surgical access to the...
6544167 Ventricular restoration patch  
A ventricular patch to restore the ventricular architecture of the heart includes a sheet of biocompatible material having a generally oval configuration, and a continuous ring fixed to the sheet....
6540659 Cardiac assistance systems having bi-directional pumping elements  
A unified, non-blood contacting, implantable heart assist system surrounds the natural heart and provides circumferential contraction in synchrony with the heart's natural contractions. The pumping...
6537315 Auxiliary artificial heart of an embedded type  
An artificial heart has a driving section, a nozzle section, a pump section for insertion into a ventricle of a human heart, and a sealing section forming a seal for a driving shaft extending from...
6537198 Splint assembly for improving cardiac function in hearts, and method for implanting the splint assembly  
A splint assembly for placement transverse a heart chamber to reduce the heart chamber radius and improve cardiac function has a tension member formed of a braided cable with a covering. A fixed...
6533716 Self-deploying axial-flow pump introduced intravascularly for temporary cardiac support  
The axial-flow pump for introduction through the vascular system of a patient has a flexible compressible tube ( 1 ) forming the pump housing. A radially compressible rotor ( 7 ) is located within...
6532964 Pulmonary and circulatory blood flow support devices and methods for heart surgery procedures  
Pump and cannula systems inserted through the right side and/or left side of the heart provide protection against collapse of the heart chambers and veins and arteries and provide supplemental...
6530876 Supplemental heart pump methods and systems for supplementing blood through the heart  
Systems and methods of supplementing blood flow from the heart of a patient involving superficial, non-invasive procedures. In one general method, a first conduit is directed into the left side of...
6527699 Magnetic suspension blood pump  
This invention is a non-contact axial flow turbo blood pump for propelling blood, which is composed of a pump housing ( 24 ) that defines a pump axis, with inlet, outlet openings at opposite axial...
6527698 Active left-right flow control in a two chamber cardiac prosthesis  
A biventricular cardiac prosthesis has a flow balance control system to balance blood flow through the left and right sides of the prosthesis to maintain a patient's left atrial pressure within...
6520904 Device and method for restructuring heart chamber geometry  
A geometric reconfiguration assembly for the natural heart having a collar configured for surrounding the natural heart. The collar can include a plurality of supports configured for positioning on...
6514226 Method and apparatus for treatment of congestive heart failure by improving perfusion of the kidney  
A method for treating congestive heart failure (CHF) has been developed that restores kidney renal functions by artificially perfusion of at least one kidney. The kidney is perfused with the...
6514194 Heart wall tension reduction apparatus and method  
An apparatus for treatment of a failing heart by reducing the wall tension therein. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a tension member for drawing at least two walls of a heart chamber...
6511413 Single cannula ventricular-assist method and apparatus  
A system for assisting the failing ventricle, which utilizes a single blood displacement chamber and a single cannula. The cannula is inserted into the failing ventricle cavity and is connected to...
6508787 System for actively supporting the flow of body fluids  
The present invention relates to a device for actively supporting the flow of body fluids, comprising an artificial flow guide system ( 10 ) with an operational area into which a pump ( 1 ) is...
6494825 System for stress relieving the heart muscle and for controlling heart function  
An apparatus and method for relieving stress on a heart muscle tissue in a wall of a heart having a chamber. A plurality of biocompatible and implantable elongate strips are configured to be...
6471633 Mechanical auxillary ventricle blood pump with reduced waist portion  
An apparatus adapted to be inflated and deflated in response to selective communication with a source of pressurized fluid includes a bladder having a semi-rigid shell body portion and a relatively...
6468041 Magnetically levitated apparatus  
There is provided a magnetically levitated apparatus wherein an impeller has one side supported by an electromagnet and the other side supported and magnetically levitated by an attractive force...
6464655 Electrically-controllable multi-fingered resilient heart compression devices  
Soft, multi-fingered resilient robotic fingers for selectively assisting the ventricles, and in particular the left ventricle, of a weak heart to produce internal pressure and to pump blood from...
6461351 Energy delivery system and method for performing myocardial revascularization  
An energy delivery system for performing myocardial revascularization on a heart of a patient including an energy pulse source that produces energy pulses sufficient to create channels in a wall of...
6450942 Method for reducing heart loads in mammals  
A method and apparatus for treating a mammal or other living organism having a heart and a peripheral vascular system to achieve a heart load reduction, said organism having a pulse rate and a...
6450171 Anterior and inferior segment ventricular restoration apparatus and method  
The symptoms of congenital heart failure are addressed in this surgical procedure for mounting a patch in the ventricle of the heart to reduce ventricular volume. Placement of the patch is...
6447441 Non-invasive flow indicator for a rotary blood pump  
An apparatus for non-invasive flow indication through a rotary blood pump. The apparatus includes a blood pump adapted for implantation into a patient. The blood pump has a moving mechanism which...
6439237 Anterior segment coronary restoration apparatus and method  
The symptoms of congenital heart failure are addressed in this surgical procedure for mounting a patch in the ventricle of the heart to reduce ventricular volume. Placement of the patch is...
6436027 Hydrodynamic blood bearing  
A hydrodynamic blood bearing includes a piston disposed coaxially in a housing bore. The piston includes a cylindrical outer surface journal spaced from the bore to define a first radial gap for...
6432039 Methods and apparatus for reinforcement of the heart ventricles  
A device for treating heart disorders, and particularly cardiomyopathy. The device is comprised of a compliant containment structure shaped in a configuration such that it surrounds and encases the...
6428464 Implantable heart assist system  
An extracardiac pumping for supplementing the circulation of blood through a patient without any component thereof being connected to the patient's heart, and method of using same. The extracardiac...
6425856 Cardiac disease treatment and device  
A cardiac constraint device comprising a jacket of biological compatible material and an adjustment member. The jacket is adapted to be secured to the heart to snugly conform to an external...
6414018 Compositions, apparatus and methods for facilitating surgical procedures  
Methods are provided for conducting surgical procedures in a patient wherein, during the surgical procedure, autonomous ventricular electrical conductivity and escape beats are reversibly and...
6408205 System for delivering mechanical waves  
There is provided an implanted system and method for delivering subsonic mechanical waves to one or more selected patient areas, said areas including the patient's heart and/or lungs. The...
6406420 Methods and devices for improving cardiac function in hearts  
Various methods and devices are disclosed for improving cardiac function in hearts having zones of infarcted (akinetic) and aneurysmal (dyskinetic) tissue regions. The methods and devices reduce...
6402680 Stress reduction apparatus and method  
The device and method for reducing heart wall stress. The device can be one which reduces wall stress throughout the cardiac cycle or only a portion of the cardiac cycle. The device can be...
6402679 External stress reduction device and method  
An external heart wall stress reduction apparatus is provided to create a heart wall shape change. The device is generally disposed to the exterior of a heart chamber to reshape the chamber into a...
6398715 Apparatus for assisting systolic and diastolic cardiac function  
The present invention pertains to an apparatus for assisting a patient's heart operation. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for expanding and collapsing a right ventricle free wall of a heart of...
6398714 Cardiac assist catheter pump and catheter and fitting for use therein  
A cardiac assist catheter pump includes a displacement structure and a catheter. The catheter has an inlet in its distal end portion and an outlet spaced from the distal end portion. The...
6397843 Electrical and manual pressing device of automated air blowing for first-aid cardiopulmonary resuscitation  
An electrical and manual pressing device of automatic air blowing for first-aid cardiopulmonary resuscitation comprises pressing unit, an air storage tank, a control chamber, air levels, and a...
6390969 Implantable heart assist system and method of applying same  
An extracardiac pumping for supplementing the circulation of blood, including the cardiac output, in a patient without any component thereof being connected to the patient's heart, and method of...
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