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US 12,376,978 B2Granted
Methods and technology for creating connections and shunts between vessels and chambers of biologic structures
AssigneeNXT Biomedical, LLC
InventorsRobert S. Schwartz, Stanton J. Rowe, Robert C. Taft, Glen Rabito, Alexander Siegel, Joseph Passman
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Abstract
Devices and methods of treating conditions cause or exacerbated by excessive fluid pressures or retentions, such as pulmonary hypertension, that involves shunting excessive fluid pressure from one bodily chamber or vessel to another bodily chamber or vessel.
Claims13
A method for treating a medical condition in a circulatory system of a human comprising:
- puncturing a superior vena cava and a pulmonary artery;
- connecting the superior vena cava and the pulmonary artery;
- and,
- diverting part of a blood flow from the pulmonary artery into the superior vena cava and allowing the blood flow into a right atrium of a heart.
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A method for treating a medical condition in a circulatory system of a human comprising:
- connecting a superior vena cava and a pulmonary artery by creating either a spaced apart tubular connection or a flush connection between the superior vena cava and the pulmonary artery;
- and,
- diverting part of a blood flow from the pulmonary artery into the superior vena cava and allowing the blood flow into a right atrium of a heart.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.