Passive cardiac assistance device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6508756
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09223645

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Artificial implantable active and passive girdles include a heart assist system with an artificial myocardium employing a number of flexible, non-distensible tubes with the walls along their long axes connected in series to form a cuff and a passive girdle is wrapped around a heart muscle which has dilatation of a ventricle to conform to the size and shape of the heart and to constrain the dilatation during diastole. The passive girdle is formed of a material and structure that does not expand away from the heart but may, over an extended period of time be decreased in size as dilatation decreases.

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ABIOMED INC22 CHERRY HILL DRIVE DANVERS MA 01923

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kung, Robert T V Auburn, MA 34 2716
Lederman, David M Marblehead, MA 8 1362
Rosenberg, Meir Newton, MA 59 4184

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