Abstract: The present invention relates to a tissue protection device for mitral valve cerclage annuloplasty and, more particularly to a tissue protection device for protecting tissues of the body (heart) during mitral valve cerclage annuloplasty that is performed on a mitral valve cerclage patient with mitral regurgitation. The tissue protection device for mitral valve cerclage annuloplasty of the present invention is a hollow cylindrical tube where cerclage sutures (10a, 10b) are inserted, in which a hole (22) is formed at a predetermined portion of the cylindrical tube so that a coronary sinus cerclage suture (10a) inserted in a coronary sinus comes out of the cylindrical tube, and a lower section from the hole is inserted into the tricuspid valve to protect tissues of the tricuspid valve and the ventricular septum.

Abstract: An assembly-type device for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation is proposed. The assembly-type device includes: a fixing member for the pulmonary artery, the fixing member installed in the pulmonary artery; a connecting tube provided with a connecting tube lumen formed therein to be movable along a connecting wire; an assembly part provided with a first assembly coupled to a lower end of the fixing member for the pulmonary artery and a second assembly coupled to an upper end of the connecting tube, wherein the fixing member for the pulmonary artery and the connecting tube are assembled together; a fixing member for inferior vena cava, the fixing member coupled to a lower end of the connecting tube and installed in the inferior vena cava; and a blocking part coupled to one side of the connecting tube and obliquely passing through a tricuspid valve to block an orifice of the tricuspid valve.

Abstract: A mitral cerclage annuloplasty apparatus comprising of a catheter with a blocking member and a capturing member. The blocking member is in the shape of a pigtail or a balloon, and is configured on the distal portion of the catheter preventing the catheter from traversing through an unsafe zone thereby enabling the catheter to pass through the safe zone. This prevents damage to critical cardiac tissues. The capturing member is adapted for pulling out a RVOT cerclage wire into the IVC, and comprises of an expandable and collapsible mesh so that the RVOT cerclage wire is captured and directed into the WC through the safe zone. Thus the RVOT cerclage wire is passed through the RV without damaging the heart tissue forming a complete circle around the mitral valvular annulus.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tricuspid regurgitation surgical instrument having a position-fixing tube that is for temporarily treating tricuspid regurgitation, and more particularly, to a tricuspid regurgitation surgical instrument having a position-fixing tube that is a surgical instrument temporarily inserted into an orifice of the tricuspid valve to check whether right-sided heart failure has occurred, which may occur when tricuspid regurgitation is treated using a permanent method in a patient with tricuspid regurgitation, and that has a position-fixing tube inserted into a coronary sinus so that a blocking part configured to block the orifice of the tricuspid valve penetrates a plane similar to a plane of leaflets of the tricuspid valve and has a penetration angle which allows the blocking part to efficiently block the orifice of the tricuspid valve.

Abstract: A His bundle-detecting snare catheter according to the present invention detects a myocardial electrical signal and locates the position of a His bundle through the insertion of a snare and an EP catheter into a dual lumen catheter having two lumens, and captures a cerclage wire, which has passed through the His bundle, and safely guides same into a body. The His bundle-detecting snare catheter according to the present invention comprises: a dual lumen catheter having formed therein a first lumen and a second lumen; an electrical signal detection catheter which is inserted into the first lumen or the second lumen and detects a myocardial electrical signal; and a snare which is inserted into the first lumen or the second lumen and has one or more annular wires at a distal portion thereof, wherein the electrical signal detection catheter and the snare are inserted into different lumens.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for transcatheter treatment for tricuspid regurgitation. The device for transcatheter treatment for tricuspid regurgitation, according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, includes: the coronary sinus tube inserted into the coronary sinus; and the tricuspid valve tube traversing the tricuspid valve, wherein the coronary sinus tube and the tricuspid valve tube communicate with each other or are adjacent to each other within a range of predetermined length at an upper side and are separate from each other at a lower side, and a blocking member for blocking a space generated by incomplete closing of the tricuspid valve is provided at a lower part of the tricuspid valve tube or between the coronary sinus tube and the tricuspid valve tube.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a RF ablation catheter for treatment of atrial fibrillation of the heart, the RF ablation catheter including: a body part which has one or more ablation electrodes formed on a distal part and which constitutes a catheter body made of a soft material; and a tapered tip which is connected to the body part and becomes thinner toward an end thereof, wherein a guidewire lumen into which a guidewire is inserted is formed to be connected to the tip and the body part. The present disclosure provides a method for treatment of atrial fibrillation of the heart, the method including: inserting a guidewire from the superior vena cava or inferior vena cava into the vein of Marshall via a coronary sinus; placing a RF ablation catheter, which has an ablation electrode formed on a distal part, in the vein of Marshall according to guidance of the guidewire; and performing RF ablation around the vein of Marshall after connecting the RF ablation catheter to a RF generator.

Abstract: A mitral cerclage annuloplasty apparatus includes a catheter with a blocking member and a capturing member. The blocking member is in the shape of a pigtail or a balloon, and is configured on the distal portion of the catheter preventing the catheter from traversing through an unsafe zone thereby enabling the catheter to pass through the safe zone. This prevents damage to critical cardiac tissues. The capturing member is adapted for pulling out a RVOT cerclage wire into the IVC, and comprises of an expandable and collapsible mesh so that the RVOT cerclage wire is captured and directed into the IVC through the safe zone. Thus the RVOT cerclage wire is passed through the RV without damaging the heart tissue forming a complete circle around the mitral valvular annulus.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for valve regurgitation surgery and pacemaker lead fixation, and more particularly, to a device for valve regurgitation surgery and pacemaker lead fixation that allows mitral regurgitation surgery, tricuspid regurgitation surgery, and fixation of a pacemaker lead to an interventricular septum to be performed using a single device.

Abstract: A snare-integrated myocardial electrical signal-detecting catheter is proposed. The snare-integrated myocardial electrical signal-detecting catheter enables a cerclage wire to pass through the His bundle by way of detecting an electrical signal from the myocardium, and safely guides the cerclage wire into a patient's body by capturing the cerclage wire, which has passed through the His bundle, with a snare built in the catheter. The snare-integrated myocardial electrical signal-detecting catheter includes: a catheter having a hollow space to insert a guidewire thereinto, and having a distal part thereof coupled to at least one or more electrodes to detect an electrical signal of the myocardium; a snare lumen built along a longitudinal direction in a sidewall of the catheter, and having a hollow space therein; and a snare inserted into the snare lumen and having one end thereof provided with at least one or more annular wires.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for transcatheter treatment for tricuspid regurgitation and, more particularly, to a device for patients suffering from tricuspid regurgitation. The device for transcatheter treatment for tricuspid regurgitation according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes: a hollow coronary sinus tube (22) for engaging into coronary sinus tissue; and a hollow tricuspid valve tube (24) for crossing over tricuspid valve tissue and anchoring at interventricular septum tissue, wherein the coronary sinus tube and the tricuspid valve tube are laterally coupled with each other from upper portions thereof by a predetermined length, and lower portions thereof are separated from each other; and the lower portion of the tricuspid valve tube (24) is provided with a blocking part (30) for blocking a space resulting from incomplete closure of the tricuspid valve.

Abstract: A tricuspid regurgitation treatment tool to be inserted into the pulmonary artery is proposed. The tricuspid regurgitation treatment tool to be inserted into the pulmonary artery is used to verify whether the right ventricular dysfunction may occur when treating the tricuspid regurgitation by surgeries or other permanent treatments. A test insertion of the tricuspid regurgitation treatment tool to be inserted into the pulmonary artery is made to pass obliquely through the tricuspid valve of a patient, and after a certain time has elapsed, the tool is removed. The tricuspid regurgitation treatment tool to be inserted into the pulmonary artery includes: a blocking part blocking the tricuspid valve; and an insertion tube provided with a guidewire-guiding lumen formed therein to be movable along the guidewire.

Abstract: A mitral cerclage annuloplasty apparatus comprises a tissue protective device and a knot delivery device. The tissue protective device comprises a first protective tube and a second protective tube. The knot delivery device comprises a tube wherein a loose knot is looped around its distal end through a hole and wherein tight knot is formed when the distal end of the tube is cut open. Alternatively, the knot delivery device comprises an inner tube and outer tube. The inner tube is insertable and rotatable inside the outer tube. When the tubes are in a closed position by rotating either the outer tube or the inner tube, a hole is created near its distal end. When the tubes are in open position by rotating either the outer tube or the inner tube, the hole joins the opening of the outer tube and lengthens.

Abstract: A mitral cerclage annuloplasty apparatus comprises a tissue protective device and a knot delivery device. The tissue protective device comprises a first protective tube and a second protective tube. The knot delivery device comprises a tube wherein a loose knot is looped around its distal end through a hole and wherein tight knot is formed when the distal end of the tube is cut open. Alternatively, the knot delivery device comprises an inner tube and outer tube. The inner tube is insertable and rotatable inside the outer tube. When the tubes are in a closed position by rotating either the outer tube or the inner tube, a hole is created near its distal end. When the tubes are in open position by rotating either the outer tube or the inner tube, the hole joins the opening of the outer tube and lengthens.

Abstract: A device for performing tricuspid regurgitation operation is proposed. The device for performing tricuspid regurgitation operation is easily inserted through the inferior vena cava, the tricuspid valve, and the pulmonary artery in sequence in order to treat tricuspid regurgitation (TR) which is a disease where blood from the right ventricle flows back into the right atrium through an empty space (i.e., orifice) formed by incomplete closing of the tricuspid valve (TV) which is positioned between the right atrium and the right ventricle of the heart. The device includes: a fixing member for pulmonary artery installed in the pulmonary artery; a fixing member for inferior vena cava installed in the inferior vena cava; a connecting tube connecting the fixing member for the pulmonary artery and the fixing member for the inferior vena cava to each other; and a blocking part passing obliquely through the tricuspid valve.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cerclage atrial defibrillator, and more particularly, is for treating mitral valve regurgitation and atrial fibrillation by reducing the size of the left atrium through a cerclage wire and treating residual atrial fibrillation by including a defibrillator lead. In order to achieve the above objective of the present invention, the cerclage atrial defibrillator includes: a cerclage wire; a coronary sinus tube provided with a lumen formed therein into which the cerclage wire is inserted, the coronary sinus tube being inserted into the coronary sinus; a tricuspid valve tube provided with a lumen formed therein, the tricuspid valve tube traversing the tricuspid valve and protecting the tricuspid valve and tissue of the interventricular septum; a pacemaker lead having an end thereof inserted into the bundle of His; and a defibrillator lead inserted into the coronary sinus tube to treat atrial fibrillation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tissue protection device for mitral valve cerclage annuloplasty and, more particularly to a tissue protection device for protecting tissues of the body (heart) during mitral valve cerclage annuloplasty that is performed on a mitral valve cerclage patient with mitral regurgitation. The tissue protection device for mitral valve cerclage annuloplasty of the present invention is a hollow cylindrical tube where cerclage sutures (10a, 10b) are inserted, in which a hole (22) is formed at a predetermined portion of the cylindrical tube so that a coronary sinus cerclage suture (10a) inserted in a coronary sinus comes out of the cylindrical tube, and a lower section from the hole is inserted into the tricuspid valve to protect tissues of the tricuspid valve and the ventricular septum.

Abstract: An assembly-type device for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation is proposed. The assembly-type device includes: a fixing member for the pulmonary artery, the fixing member installed in the pulmonary artery; a connecting tube provided with a connecting tube lumen formed therein to be movable along a connecting wire; an assembly part provided with a first assembly coupled to a lower end of the fixing member for the pulmonary artery and a second assembly coupled to an upper end of the connecting tube, wherein the fixing member for the pulmonary artery and the connecting tube are assembled together; a fixing member for inferior vena cava, the fixing member coupled to a lower end of the connecting tube and installed in the inferior vena cava; and a blocking part coupled to one side of the connecting tube and obliquely passing through a tricuspid valve to block an orifice of the tricuspid valve.

Abstract: A position-adjustable device for treatment of tricuspid regurgitation is proposed. The position-adjustable device for the treatment of tricuspid regurgitation is used to verify whether heart failure of the right ventricle may occur, and includes: a first catheter provided with a first lumen; a second catheter inserted into the first lumen and provided with a second lumen into which a guidewire is inserted; an adjusting part coupled to a lower side of the first catheter and the second catheter, wherein the adjusting part is provided with a first direction-adjusting device adjusting a direction of an upper end of the first catheter; and a blocking part coupled to an upper outer side surface of the second catheter, capable of adjusting a position according to a movement of the upper end of the first catheter, and obliquely penetrating and blocking the orifice formed by the incomplete closing of the tricuspid valve.