Abstract: Devices, apparatus, and methods for catheter-based repair of cardiac valves, including transcatheter-mitral-valve-cerclage annuloplasty and transcatheter-mitral-valve reapposition. In particular, a target and capture device is provided for guiding a cerclage traversal catheter system through a cerclage trajectory, particularly through a reentry site of the cerclage trajectory. The target and capture device provides the user with a target through which the cerclage traversal catheter system must be guided, particularly under imaging guidance, so as to properly traverse the cerclage trajectory at any desired location, particularly at a reentry site. The target and capture device can, further, ensnare and externalize the cerclage traversal catheter system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 15, 2011
Publication date:
August 15, 2013
Applicant:
The Government of the United of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health
Abstract: Disclosed are topical compositions comprising at least one histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor (HDI) and a carrier comprising petrolatum. Methods for using such compositions to treat or inhibit cancer and various skin diseases are also disclosed.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 15, 2006
Publication date:
November 27, 2008
Applicant:
Government of the United of America, Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and....
Inventors:
Susan E. Bates, Antonio Tito Fojo, Richard L. Piekarz, John J. Wright, George J. Grimes, Karen M. Schweikart