Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for determining settings of a medical device associated with a patient. The apparatus comprises a) means for receiving a patient-specific value of a least one parameter; b) means for generating a profile for the patient based on the patient-specific value; and c) means for determining a setting of at least one operating parameter of the medical device based on a comparison of the profile for the patient with stored profiles of the patient and/or of other patients in a storage medium, each stored profile comprising a stored setting of the at least one operating parameter and a stored patient-specific value of the at least one parameter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to optimizing a health state of a patient. An apparatus comprises a) means for receiving a patient-specific value of at least one parameter; b) means for generating a profile for the patient based at least in part on the patient-specific value; c) means for selecting a stored profile out of one or more stored profiles of the patient and/or of other patients in a storage medium, the selecting based on a comparison of the stored profile and the generated profile for the patient, wherein the stored profile comprises a stored feedback and a stored patient-specific value of the at least one parameter; and d) means for providing feedback to patient based on the stored feedback.

Abstract: A catheter device for performing a cardiac sympathetic denervation intervention includes an ablation device for applying an ablation action. The ablation device has an expansion member that is expandable from a compressed delivery state to an expanded ablation state. The expansion member includes an inner lumen defining a blood flow passage through the ablation device in the expanded ablation state of the expansion member in an antegrade flow direction (F). The catheter device is configured for introduction into the aorta to perform a cardiac sympathetic denervation intervention at an ablation site within the aorta. The expansion member is configured to abut, in the expanded ablation state, an aortic wall section (W) and carries an ablation arrangement for applying ablation action at the ablation site.

Abstract: An implantable leadless pacemaker configured to provide antibradycardia pacing of a human or animal heart, comprising: an electrical energy source, a sensor configured to sense intracardiac potentials of the heart, a pulse generator configured to generate electrical pacing pulses, a control unit for controlling the pulse generator, wherein the control unit is configured to inhibit generation of an electrical pacing pulse when an intracardiac potential is sensed, wherein the control unit is further configured to permanently switch off the pulse generator after passing of a predetermined timespan and/or after a pre-defined event detected by the pacemaker, an electrode pole for electrical stimulation and sensing intracardiac potentials, at least one fastening element for fastening the pacemaker to heart tissue, wherein the implantable leadless pacemaker is adapted such that a lifetime of the implantable leadless pacemaker is smaller than one year, particularly smaller than one month, particularly smaller than tw

Abstract: A catheter includes a positional identifier / marker at a tip section for a medical implant that needs to be aligned rotationally and/or axially and/or in terms of tilting in a human or animal body.

Abstract: An artificial heart valve includes support structure having a first end and second end and defining an interior of the valve. A covering covers the support structure and includes an intermediate portion with a plurality of intermediate strip-shaped sections having cuts between them. Some are attached to the stent and others are not so that a closed configuration prevents retrograde blood flow into an interior of the stent with the free strip-shaped sections abutting the stent and overlapping or abutting the attached strip-shaped sections to prevent retrograde blood flow into the interior. An open configuration is formed with the unattached strip-shaped sections lifting from the stent to allow antegrade blood flow from the interior of the stent.

Abstract: An implantable leadless pacemaker configured to provide antibradycardia pacing of a human or animal heart, comprising: an electrical energy source, a sensor configured to sense intracardiac potentials of the heart, a pulse generator configured to generate electrical pacing pulses, a control unit for controlling the pulse generator, wherein the control unit is configured to inhibit generation of an electrical pacing pulse when an intracardiac potential is sensed, wherein the control unit is further configured to permanently switch off the pulse generator after passing of a predetermined timespan and/or after a pre-defined event detected by the pacemaker, an electrode pole for electrical stimulation and sensing intracardiac potentials, at least one fastening element for fastening the pacemaker to heart tissue, wherein the implantable leadless pacemaker is adapted such that a lifetime of the implantable leadless pacemaker is smaller than one year, particularly smaller than one month, particularly smaller than tw

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an implantable pressure sensor probe for measuring a pressure in the left atrium of a human heart, wherein a distal portion of the pressure sensor probe has a pressure sensor for detecting the pressure. A catheter is also described.

Abstract: A catheter for dilating and/or destroying a stenosis in a vessel of a patient includes a catheter shaft having a cavity, at least one first active element within the cavity fixedly connected to a wall delimiting the cavity, and at least one radially protruding scoring element arranged on the outside of the catheter shaft at the cavity for exerting a pressure force on a stenosis in a vessel. The at least one first active element is configured to react to an axially movable element by radially expanding the catheter shaft and thereby radially expanding the at least one radially protruding scoring element.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an implantation catheter for implanting a vascular implant into a vessel of a human or animal, comprising a catheter shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, a vascular implant carried by the catheter shaft, and a pressure sensor for sensing a vascular pressure at the distal end. The implantation catheter comprises an inflatable balloon arranged circumferentially around an outside of the catheter shaft in a distal end section of the catheter shaft. Also, a method for implanting a vascular implant into a vessel of a human or an animal is provided.

Abstract: The ablation of tissue in a cardiac wall is performed by introducing an endocardial catheter into the interior of a heart and an epicardial catheter is placed on the cardiac wall. With the aid of an electromagnet and a counter-element, which can be permanently magnetized or can also be an electromagnet, the two catheters are mutually attracted in such a way that electrodes come into contact with opposite sides of the cardiac wall such that the electrodes are optimally positioned. The use of a catheter with a plurality of such electrodes in a row enables the removal of whole lines of destroyed cardiac wall tissue by ablation.

Abstract: An apparatus for endobronchial ablation of a tumor is provided. The apparatus has an ablation catheter and a guide facility to be inserted into the bronchial system, a sheath defining a guide channel for the ablation catheter, a closing apparatus for a bronchial arm, and an aperture allowing airtight insertion of the ablation catheter into a bronchial arm blocked by the closing apparatus. The ablation catheter and/or the guide facility have a suction apparatus for sucking air out of a bronchial arm blocked off by the closing apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus for endobronchial ablation of a tumor is provided. The apparatus has an ablation catheter and a guide facility to be inserted into the bronchial system, a sheath defining a guide channel for the ablation catheter, a closing apparatus for a bronchial arm, and an aperture allowing airtight insertion of the ablation catheter into a bronchial arm blocked by the closing apparatus. The ablation catheter and/or the guide facility have a suction apparatus for sucking air out of a bronchial arm blocked off by the closing apparatus.

Abstract: The ablation of tissue in a cardiac wall is performed by introducing an endocardial catheter into the interior of a heart and an epicardial catheter is placed on the cardiac wall. With the aid of an electromagnet and a counter-element, which can be permanently magnetized or can also be an electromagnet, the two catheters are mutually attracted in such a way that electrodes come into contact with opposite sides of the cardiac wall such that the electrodes are optimally positioned. The use of a catheter with a plurality of such electrodes in a row enables the removal of whole lines of destroyed cardiac wall tissue by ablation.

Abstract: A contrast agent system for X-ray and computed tomography diagnostics has a dissolvable microcapsule in which a substance or substance mixture that releases CO2 upon contact with a bodily fluid is enclosed.