Interventional medical systems and associated tethering assemblies and methods

    公开(公告)号:US10238864B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-26

    申请号:US15223585

    申请日:2016-07-29

    Abstract: In an interventional medical system, a delivery catheter for deploying a medical device of the system has a tethering assembly that includes a tether line, a grip member, and a release member, wherein the tether line extends through a longitudinal lumen of a base of the release member and is coupled to a base of the grip member, and the release member has legs extending though apertures formed through the base of the grip member. The device may be tethered to the catheter such that a proximal end of the device is held within a cavity defined by a plurality of elastic fingers of the grip member that extend distally from the base thereof; and the device may be deployed from the catheter by moving the legs of the release member within the grip member cavity to push the proximal end of the device out from the cavity.

    IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE FIXATION

    公开(公告)号:US20160243350A9

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-25

    申请号:US14193306

    申请日:2014-02-28

    CPC classification number: A61N1/05 A61N1/0573 A61N1/37518 A61N1/3756

    Abstract: Various fixation techniques for implantable medical device (IMDs) are described. In one example, an assembly comprises an IMD; and a set of active fixation tines attached to the IMD. The active fixation tines in the set are deployable from a spring-loaded position in which distal ends of the active fixation tines point away from the IMD to a hooked position in which the active fixation tines bend back towards the IMD. The active fixation tines are configured to secure the IMD to a patient tissue when deployed while the distal ends of the active fixation tines are positioned adjacent to the patient tissue.

    FIXATION FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES
    14.
    发明申请
    FIXATION FOR IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES 有权
    可植入医疗器械的固定

    公开(公告)号:US20150039069A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-02-05

    申请号:US13955127

    申请日:2013-07-31

    Abstract: A tine portion for an implantable medical device includes a hook segment and a distal segment terminated by a tissue-piercing tip, wherein the distal segment extends from the hook segment to the tip. The hook segment, which is elastically deformable from a pre-set curvature, has one of: a round cross-section and an elliptical cross-section, while the distal segment has a flattened, or approximately rectangular cross-section. One or a pair of the tine portions may be integrally formed, with a base portion, from a superelastic wire, wherein the base portion is configured to fixedly attach to the device, for example, being captured between insulative members of a fixation subassembly.

    Abstract translation: 用于可植入医疗装置的牙齿部分包括钩部分和由组织穿刺尖端终止的远侧部分,其中远端部分从钩部分延伸到尖端。 从预设的曲率可弹性变形的钩段具有圆形横截面和椭圆形横截面,而远端段具有扁平或近似矩形的横截面。 一个或一对齿部可与来自超弹性线的基部一体地形成,其中基部被构造成固定地附接到装置,例如被捕获在固定子组件的绝缘构件之间。

    Electrode configuration for a medical device

    公开(公告)号:US11541232B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-03

    申请号:US16895133

    申请日:2020-06-08

    Abstract: An example device includes an elongated housing, a first and second electrode, and signal generation circuitry. The housing can be implanted within a single first chamber of the heart. The first electrode extends distally from the distal end of the elongated housing. A distal end of the first electrode can penetrate into wall tissue of a second chamber of the heart. The second electrode, extending from the distal end of the elongated housing, is configured to flexibly maintain contact with the wall tissue of the first chamber without penetration of the wall tissue of the first chamber by the second electrode. Signal generation circuitry can be within the elongated housing and coupled to the first and second electrode. The signal generation circuitry can deliver cardiac pacing to the second chamber via the first electrode and the first chamber via the second electrode.

    Interventional medical devices, device systems, and fixation components thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11027125B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-08

    申请号:US16158724

    申请日:2018-10-12

    Abstract: A fixation mechanism of an implantable medical device is formed by a plurality of tines fixedly mounted around a perimeter of a distal end of the device. Each tine may be said to include a first segment fixedly attached to the device, a second segment extending from the first segment, and a third segment, to which the second segment extends. When the device is loaded in a lumen of a delivery tool and a rounded free distal end of each tine engages a sidewall that defines the lumen, to hold the tines in a spring-loaded condition, the first segment of each tine, which has a spring-biased pre-formed curvature, becomes relatively straightened, and the third segment of each tine, which is terminated by the free distal end, extends away from the axis of the device at an acute angle in a range from about 45 degrees to about 75 degrees.

    IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE FIXATION

    公开(公告)号:US20210069491A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-11

    申请号:US17099401

    申请日:2020-11-16

    Abstract: Various fixation techniques for implantable medical device (IMDs) are described. In one example, an assembly comprises an IMD; and a set of active fixation tines attached to the IMD. The active fixation tines in the set are deployable from a spring-loaded position in which distal ends of the active fixation tines point away from the IMD to a hooked position in which the active fixation tines bend back towards the IMD. The active fixation tines are configured to secure the IMD to a patient tissue when deployed while the distal ends of the active fixation tines are positioned adjacent to the patient tissue.

    LEADED ELECTRICAL STIMULATION SYSTEM
    19.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200147365A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-14

    申请号:US16681279

    申请日:2019-11-12

    Abstract: In some examples, an implantable medical device (IMD) that includes a pulse generator comprising a housing, electrodes, and circuitry configured to deliver cardiac pacing via the electrodes. The IMD may further include a lead including at least one of the electrodes, an elongate body, a fixation helix, and a connector segment. A width of the helix transverse to a longitudinal axis of the lead is greatest at a distal end of the helix. A proximal end of the elongate body may be connected to a distal end of the pulse generator, and the helix may be attached to a distal end of the elongate body. The pulse generator may include a first connector tab. A distal end of the connector segment may be configured to receive the proximal end of the elongate body and a proximal end of the connector segment may include at least one second connector member configured to engage the first connector tab.

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