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Aortic pump devices and methods

US9839734B1 · kind B1 · utility

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30Claims

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Assignee

Berlin Heart GmbH · DE

Inventors

Ares K. Menon · Berlin, DE
Peter Nüsser · Kleinmachnow, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 2, 2016
Grant date	Dec 12, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 2, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61M60/861
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A disclosed apparatus or method can include or use a non-transluminally implantantable blood pump housing, which can be sized and shaped to be implanted at an aortic valve of a human subject, the pump housing can include: a pump housing cross-sectional profile size that is larger than is passable via a blood vessel of the human subject; and a power connection, configured for being electrically connected to an intravascular lead that is sized and shaped to extend from the pump housing through a subclavian artery of the human subject.

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