Force transducting implant system for the mitigation of atrioventricular pressure gradient loss and the restoration of healthy ventricular geometry
AssigneeHarmony Development Group, Inc.
InventorsJohn Wilson, Christopher Seguin
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Abstract
An implant system for restoring and improving physiological intracardiac flow in a human heart is provided including a force transducting, structurally stabilizing, and functionally assisting ventricular inflatable cardiac implant within a human heart for restoring and improving physiologic intracardiac flow, restoring the ventricular vortex, preventing atrioventricular pressure gradient loss, mitigating valvular regurgitation, and utilizing native energy and force, via force transduction, to restore geometric elliptical proportion and function to the atria, the ventricles and ventricular walls, and the valvular apparatus itself.
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An implant system for restoring and changing physiological intracardiac flow, mitigating atrioventricular pressure gradient loss and valvular regurgitation, and utilizing the native pressure gradient as a reconstructive therapeutic force in a human heart comprising:
- a dual-force pressure mitigating implant comprising:
- a ‘one way valve’ or ‘check valve’ mounted within a ring structure that allows atrial blood to pass through it into the ventricle but prevents ventricular blood from returning into the atrium;
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- a pressure mitigating assembly having a mechanical dual force structural housing having a proximal annular expanding ring structure, a distal suspension ring, and ‘gradient funneling skirt’, the proximal annular expanding ring structure supporting the valve skirt that seals to the distal suspension ring, the distal suspension ring supporting the ‘one way’ or ‘check valve’;
- an anchoring system comprising one or more therapeutic base plate assemblies attachable to the heart's apex or wall or structures;
- a universal tether assembly, comprising a tether or tethers or shaft, connected between the pressure mitigating assembly and the anchoring system, wherein the pressure mitigating assembly remaining tethered to the apex of the heart via the shaft and via the apical base plate;
- a conduit providing a fluidic connection;
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- a control unit with multiple sealed chambers to control the volume in the fluidic lumens and bladders and to house sensor components.
An implant system comprising a vortex flow directing member or balloon or any other distal assembly, wherein the vortex flow directing implant or distal system assembly intercepts, mitigates, directs, re-directs, steers, and/or vectors hemodynamic flow in one cardiac phase while simultaneously sealing the ventricle during the next cardiac phase and retains the atrioventricular pressure gradient and captures, harnesses, and delivers, via the tether or shaft to the base plate, native cardiac energy and force and native atrioventricular pressure gradient energy and force that is then delivered to the ventricular structures, septum, and/or the ventricular walls restoring the native valvulo-ventricular interaction.
An intracardiac passive ventricular assist, support, and repair implant system, the implant system comprising:
- a distal assembly;
- a shaft;
- an apical base plate, the distal assembly or component tethered to the apex of the heart via the shaft and the apical base plate;
- a control unit;
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- a connective multi-lumen tubing extending between the control unit and the implant, the above components as universal foundation of an integrated system and these combined components create the foundation for an integrated ventricular support and repair system.
The claim is made, wherein the control unit has features for palpation and or the sense of touch to identify the required chamber of the of the subcutaneous control unit implant.
An anchoring plate configured to position, anchor, and connect an implant directly to the papillary muscles, precisely transfer targeted force and energy to the papillary muscles, and utilize the native pressure gradient as a reconstructive force in a human heart, the anchoring plate comprising:
- a ball mount with a male universal ball connector;
- a connection member extending from the central ball mount;
- a first fixation wire extending from the connection member, the first fixation wire having a curved distal end and a first anchor at a distal-most end;
- a second fixation wire extending from the connection member, the second fixation wire having a curved distal end and a second anchor at a distal-most end, the curved distal end of the second fixation wire oriented in an opposite direction and overlapping the curved distal end of the first fixation wire;
- a shaft receiver coupling the ball mount;
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- a shaft connecting an atrioventricular distal attachment to the anchoring plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.