28 results about "Beating heart" patented technology

Systems and methods are provided herein for monitoring electrical activity in ex vivo, resting donor organs. Systems and methods provided herein also include providing electrical stimulation to the donor tissue to maintain or increase viability during storage or transport. Donor organs can include ex vivo, resting hearts. Electrical activity can be used to determine donor organ viability, especially in instances where visual evaluation of a beating heart is not possible. The same electrodes or other sensing devices used to measure electrical activity can be used to apply a voltage / current to the tissue as well in order to maintain viability of the organ. In some embodiments, stimulation or depression may be provided in response to the measured electrical activity.

The present document relates to a device for fixing a cardiac pump in an opening of a ventricular wall of a beating heart. The device includes: a hollow main body of overall cylindrical shape having an outer surface, this hollow main body includes a proximal end and a distal end between which said the outer surface extends, at least one portion of the outer surface of the main body intended to be placed inside ventricular cavity, except for its distal end, has a surface relief provided with protuberances and hollows, the distal end of the hollow main body forms a smooth crown having an arithmetic average roughness of less than or equal to 1 μm in order to stop the colonization of the fixing device by endothelial cells.

The invention is entitled "Breath control during cardiac ablation." The invention discloses a method for invasive cardiac treatment, the method comprising inserting a catheter into a beating heart of a patient who is anesthetically paralyzed and intubated for ventilation via a transvascular path, and temporarily stopping ventilation of the patient after the catheter is inserted. The method comprises moving the catheter between a plurality of locations of myocardial tissue of the heart with the ventilation stopped, and ablating the myocardial tissue of the heart at the plurality of locations with the ventilation stopped.

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The present disclosure provides beating explanted donor hearts from swine, methods of making thereof, and methods of using thereof. The present disclosure further provides methods of treating a disease (e.g., a heart disease) in a human subject in need thereof comprising transplanting of a beating explanted donor heart from swine. The present disclosure also provides medical instruments suitable for transplanting a beating explanted donor heart from swine.

This invention relates to the design and function of a compressible valve replacement prosthesis, collared or uncollared, which can be deployed into a beating heart without extracorporeal circulation using a transcatheter delivery system. The design as discussed focuses on the deployment of a device via a minimally invasive fashion and by way of example considers a minimally invasive surgical procedure preferably utilizing the intercostal or subxyphoid space for valve introduction. In order to accomplish this, the valve is formed in such a manner that it can be compressed to fit within a delivery system and secondarily ejected from the delivery system into the annulus of a target valve such as a mitral valve or tricuspid valve.

Disclosed herein are minimally invasive systems and methods for performing an edge to edge repair of a heart valve on a beating heart of a patient. One or more sutures are inserted into a plurality of leaflets of the heart valve while the heart is beating through a minimally invasive access. The sutures can be threaded through a suture crimp that is advanced to the leaflets. A movable gate on the suture crimp can be actuated to secure the sutures at an appropriate tension to maintain the leaflets in a coapted position.

Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for non-invasive estimation of Pulmonary Hypertension, PH, from heart sound signals. Consistent with the disclosure, the method includes the steps of: receiving a sound signal acquired from a beating heart of a subject over a predetermined time period; generating one or more 2D feature maps comprising a 2D feature map with the received sound signal where a first axis of the map is arranged over time and a second axis of the map is arranged over individual heartbeats; applying a pre-trained neural network to relate the generated one or more 2D feature maps with a training dataset of previously acquired and generated training 2D feature maps of a PH subject group and a non-PH subject group, thus to obtain an indicator of the presence of Pulmonary Hypertension. Also disclosed is a training method of said neural network and a system.

This invention relates to the design and function of a compressible valve replacement prosthesis, collared or uncollared, which can be deployed into a beating heart without extracorporeal circulation using a transcatheter delivery system. The design as discussed focuses on the deployment of a device via a minimally invasive fashion and by way of example considers a minimally invasive surgical procedure preferably utilizing the intercostal or subxyphoid space for valve introduction. In order to accomplish this, the valve is formed in such a manner that it can be compressed to fit within a delivery system and secondarily ejected from the delivery system into the annulus of a target valve such as a mitral valve or tricuspid valve.

To provide a method for treating a heart condition by perfusing a drug to an unarrested beating heart of a patient.SOLUTION: A closed circuit may be formed by using a first drug delivery catheter 122 positioned in a patient's right coronary artery, a second drug delivery catheter 124 positioned in the patient's left main coronary artery, a drug collection catheter positioned in a coronary sinus, the coronary artery, the coronary venous system, and an external membrane oxygenator 120 interspersed between the venous and arterial branches. A drug for treating a heart condition may be perfused through the closed circuit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1A

A device is for detecting magnetic signals generated by a beating heart. The device includes a support body having a contact surface, and an arrangement of at least two nitrogen-vacancy centers, NV, magnetometer units. The arrangement is embedded in the support body. The support body is configured to receive a user sitting or lying on the contact surface.

Apparatus and methods for deriving and displaying a time-averaged fetal heart rate signal in combination with microvariability information relating to beat-to-beat heart rate signal variability within different time-averaged epochs or windows. Supplementary information is displayed, for example, in temporal alignment or registration with the time-averaged heart rate signal, which indicates signal variability information during the averaging window of the time-averaged signal.

Disclosed herein are minimally invasive systems and methods for performing an edge to edge repair of a heart valve on a beating heart of a patient. One or more sutures are inserted into a plurality of leaflets of the heart valve while the heart is beating through a minimally invasive access. The sutures can be threaded through a suture crimp that is advanced to the leaflets. A movable gate on the suture crimp can be actuated to secure the sutures at an appropriate tension to maintain the leaflets in a coapted position.

A device is for detecting magnetic signals produced by a beating heart. The device includes at least one nitrogen vacancy center, NV, a magnetometer unit, configured to sense a magnetic field strength and / or field direction, at least one further sensor, and a signal processing unit, to which the at least one NV magnetometer unit and the at least one further sensor are connected. The device is configured to, using the signal processing unit, determine at least one effective magnetic field strength and / or at least one effective field direction from the signals of the at least one NV magnetometer unit and the at least one further

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A device for performing minimally invasive repair of mitral valve leaflets in a beating heart through the delivery and implantation of artificial chordae tendineae includes a handle for positioning the device into a chest cavity of the patient, a capture assembly adapted to capture a valve leaflet between distal an proximal tip portions, a needle adapted to penetrate the valve leaflet, and a capture confirmation system for verifying capture of the valve leaflet between the distal and proximal tip portions.

A device and method for deriving and displaying a time-averaged fetal heart rate signal in conjunction with microvariability information relating to variation in the beat-to-beat heart rate signal within the different time-averaging epochs or windows. Supplementary information is displayed, for example temporally aligned or registered with the time-average heart rate signal, which is indicative of variation information for the signal during averaging windows of the time-averaged signal.

The present application relates to the technical field of physiological signal processing, and discloses an energy consumption estimation method and device based on electrocardiosignal and a storage medium. The method extracts beat-by-beat heart beat information, heart rate variability features and electrocardio-derived respiration features from an ECG signal, and combines signal quality control, metabolic intensity regression model and start-stop kinetics compensation to realize continuous estimation of instantaneous energy consumption rate and cumulative energy consumption.

Provided is a system and methods of controlling heart animation of a training model in a sinus or arrhythmic beating pattern based on at least one input parameter. The method may include selectively controlling an adjustable valve in phases according to the at least one input parameter to animate the heart. Additionally, the method may include adjusting input parameters during operation based on an environmental stimulus.

An implantable medical device includes an activity sensor, a pulse generator, and a control module. The control module is configured to determine activity metrics from the activity signal and determine an activity metric value at a predetermined percentile of the activity metrics. The control module sets a lower pacing rate set point based on the activity metric value at the predetermined percentile.

An access device for a heart chamber, a removable hemostatic valve unit, and a system and a method of creating a transapical passage on a beating heart are disclosed. In examples, the access device (1) includes an apical base plate (100) and a sealing unit (3) configured to provide a separation of a wet zone from a heart chamber and a dry zone with a gaseous environment outside of said heart chamber inside a patient body at the same time.

This invention relates to the design and function of a compressible valve replacement prosthesis which can be deployed into a beating heart without extracorporeal circulation using a transcatheter delivery system. The design as discussed focuses on the deployment of a device via a minimally invasive fashion and by way of example considers a minimally invasive surgical procedure preferably utilizing the intercostal or subxyphoid space for valve introduction. In order to accomplish this, the valve is formed in such a manner that it can be compressed to fit within a delivery system and secondarily ejected from the delivery system into the annulus of a target valve such as a mitral valve or tricuspid valve.

An access device for a heart chamber, a removable hemostatic valve unit, and a system and a method of creating a transapical passage on a beating heart are disclosed. In examples, the access device (1) includes an apical base plate (100) and a sealing unit (3) configured to provide a separation of a wet zone from a heart chamber and a dry zone with a gaseous environment outside of said heart chamber inside a patient body at the same time.

The application relates to the technical field of cell differentiation and the technical field of myocardial tissue regeneration medicine, in particular to an induced culture medium and method for quickly obtaining a spontaneously beating myocardial ball, wherein the myocardial cells of a human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) source obtained through co-culture with hMSCs are combined with a differentiation culture medium, so that the myocardial cell clones harvested on day 7 are more independent and naturally separated from other non-myocardial cells, the myocardial clones can be quickly screened and purified through physical and non-enzyme reagents, the step of medium screening and purification in the traditional method is omitted, and time and differentiation cost are saved.

In one embodiment, a suture attachment catheter configured to repair a heart valve by inserting a suture in a valve leaflet of a beating heart of a patient includes a handle control, a flexible catheter body, and a suture attachment assembly at a distal end of the catheter body. The suture attachment assembly can include a rail between a distal clamping jaw hingedly attached to the rail, and a proximal clamping jaw. One of the proximal clamping jaw or distal clamping jaw can be selectively slideable with respect to the other on the rail using a jaw actuator of the control handle to adjust a distance between the proximal clamping jaw and the distal clamping jaw. A needle can be selectively slideable within the catheter body by using a needle actuator of the proximal handle control to penetrate a valve leaflet and insert a suture through the valve leaflet when the valve leaflet is captured between the proximal clamping jaw and the distal clamping jaw.

A synthetic patient specific A benchtop beating heart simulator that is custom-fabricated using 3D printing technology based on patient-specific imaging data has been developed. The simulator employs soft robotics to accurately mimic the motion and biomechanics of the left atrium, with a particular focus on the left atrial appendage and conditions associated with Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This simulator is designed to recreate hemodynamics in a controlled benchtop setting, allowing for precise testing and evaluation of medical device designs and interventions.