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公开(公告)号:US20220370120A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-24
申请号:US17664824
申请日:2022-05-24
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Zhongping C. Yang , Thomas A. Anderson , Lars M. Mattison , Nicolas Coulombe , Randal C. Schulhauser , Robert C. Kowal
Abstract: A method includes cutting a septal wall between a right atrium and left atrium of a heart of a patient to form a multi-cuspid valvular shunt, and ablating septal wall tissue of at least a portion of the multi-cuspid valvular shunt to cause the ablated portion of the multi-cuspid valvular shunt to be biostable.
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公开(公告)号:US10238864B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-26
申请号:US15223585
申请日:2016-07-29
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Thomas A. Anderson , Vladimir Grubac
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20160243350A9
公开(公告)日:2016-08-25
申请号:US14193306
申请日:2014-02-28
Applicant: MEDTRONIC, INC.
Inventor: Vladimir Grubac , Matthew D. Bonner , Raymond W. Usher , Thomas A. Anderson , Arshad A. Alfoqaha
IPC: A61N1/05
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20150039069A1
公开(公告)日:2015-02-05
申请号:US13955127
申请日:2013-07-31
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Kenneth D. Rys , Thomas A. Anderson , Vladimir Grubac , Jonathan I. Kuhn
IPC: A61N1/05
CPC classification number: A61N1/0573 , A61N1/362 , A61N1/37205 , A61N1/37518 , A61N1/3756 , A61N2001/0585
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。
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公开(公告)号:US11541232B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-03
申请号:US16895133
申请日:2020-06-08
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Thomas A. Anderson , Zhongping C. Yang
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.
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公开(公告)号:US11426578B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-30
申请号:US16130272
申请日:2018-09-13
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Zhongping Yang , Becky L. Dolan , Xin Chen , Thomas A. Anderson , Berthold Stegemann , Maurice Verbeek
Abstract: A pacemaker has a housing and a therapy delivery circuit enclosed by the housing for generating pacing pulses for delivery to a patient's heart. An electrically insulative distal member is coupled directly to the housing and at least one non-tissue piercing cathode electrode is coupled directly to the insulative distal member. A tissue piercing electrode extends away from the housing.
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公开(公告)号:US11027125B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-08
申请号:US16158724
申请日:2018-10-12
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Xin Chen , Michael D. Eggen , Vladimir Grubac , Brian P. Colin , Wei Gan , Thomas A. Anderson , Kathryn Hilpisch
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20210069491A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-11
申请号:US17099401
申请日:2020-11-16
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Vladimir Grubac , Matthew D. Bonner , Raymond W. Usher , Thomas A. Anderson , Arshad A. Alfoqaha
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.
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公开(公告)号:US20200147365A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-14
申请号:US16681279
申请日:2019-11-12
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Mark T. Marshall , Teresa A. Whitman , Carla Pfeiffer , Thomas A. Anderson , Jean Rutten , Paul Adams , Antoine Camps , Richard Cornelussen , Ralph Leinders
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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公开(公告)号:US20190290915A1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-26
申请号:US16361996
申请日:2019-03-22
Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
Inventor: Zhongping Yang , Thomas A. Anderson , Brian P. Colin , William J. Clemens , Subham Ghosh , Jeffrey M. Gillberg , Maurice T. I. Verbeek , Toine Camps , Lilian Kornet , Berthold Stegemann , Jean Rutten
Abstract: VfA cardiac therapy uses an implantable medical device or system. The implantable medical device includes a tissue-piercing electrode implanted in the basal and/or septal region of the left ventricular myocardium of the patient's heart from the triangle of Koch region of the right atrium through the right atrial endocardium and central fibrous body. The device may include a right atrial electrode, a right atrial motion detector, or both. The device may be implanted completely within the patient's heart or may use one or more leads to implant electrodes in the patient's heart. The device may be used to provide cardiac therapy, including single or multiple chamber pacing, atrioventricular synchronous pacing, asynchronous pacing, triggered pacing, cardiac resynchronization pacing, or tachycardia-related therapy. A separate medical device may be used to provide some functionality for cardiac therapy, such as sensing, pacing, or shock therapy.
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