Abstract: The present invention includes a device and method for a self-expanding framework device adapted to facilitate the deployment of an extra-cardiac device. The device includes a deployment tube and a self-expanding wire framework having a structure that results in the self-expanding wire framework circumferential flaring motion and bending outwardly to advance around the heart.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 13, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 5, 2019
Assignees:
The Texas A&M University System, Corlnnova Incorporated
Inventors:
John C. Criscione, Christina M. Bolch, Boris Leschinsky
Abstract: The present invention includes a method and device for the minimally invasive implantation in a heart of a deployable device through a left thoracotomy or subxiphoid incision.
Abstract: The present invention provides a direct cardiac contact device adapted to be implanted in a patient suffering from congestive heart failure and related cardiac pathologies, said cardiac device having means for providing ventricular assist, ventricular support and diastolic recoil, or for providing ventricular support and diastolic recoil only.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 22, 2010
Publication date:
March 10, 2011
Applicants:
The Texas A&M University System, Corlnnova Incorporated
Inventors:
William C. Altman, Saurabh Biswas, John C. Criscione, Lewis D. Harrison, Michael R. Moreno, Dennis I. Robbins
Abstract: The present invention provides methods and direct cardiac contact diastolic recoil device to improve diastolic recoil of a heart and includes a biocompatible film attached to or enclosing one or more structural elements that store elastic energy during heart contraction and release energy during heart filling.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 22, 2010
Publication date:
January 27, 2011
Applicants:
The Texas A&M University System, Corlnnova Incorporated
Inventors:
John C. Criscione, Michael R. Moreno, Lewis D. Harrison, Saurabh Biswas, Dennis I. Robbins