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25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series
25th IVR World Congress Law and technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 Paper Series
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- Law, environmental policy and Kantian philosophy (2012)
- Are Kantian philosophy and its principle of respect for persons inadequate to the protection of environmental values? This paper answers this question by elucidating how Kantian ethics can take environmental values seriously. In the period that starts with the Critique of Judgment in 1790 and ends with the Metaphysics of Morals in 1797, the subject would have been approached by Kant in a different manner; although the respect that we may owe to non-human nature is still grounded in our duties to mankind, the basis for such respect stems from nature's aesthetic properties, and the duty to preserve nature lies in our duties to ourselves. Compared to the "market paradigm", as it is called by Gillroy (the reference is to a conception of a public policy based on a criterion of economic efficiency or utility), Kantian philosophy can offer a better explanation of the relationship between environmental policy and the theory of justice. Kantian justice defines the "just state" as the one that protects the moral capacities of its "active" citizens, as presented in the first Part of the Metaphysics of Morals. In the Kantian paradigm, the environmental risk becomes a "public" concern. That means it is not subsumed under an individual decision, based on a calculus.
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- Litigation and new technologies in post-conventional societies (2012)
- The increase in the volume of litigation verified since the 1990's, having the Brazilian society as context, made the judiciary open itself to new technologies which facilitate the access to justice, as well as to a faster resolution of the demands. However, the intense insertion of technical rationalization in the process and decision operations by the judiciary, during the last years, led to a legalization supported by presuppositions of technical-instrumental regulation. According to the goal policy established by the CNJ, the annoyance of the instrumental rationality is present "with respect to purposes", which demands, more and more, a mere fulfillment of previously instituted goals from the law operators. The matter is to know if the implementation of new technologies to solve the growing litigation coming from the complexity of societies is enough to adjust the Law to a post-conventional platform. If the social complexity implies resources coming from new technologies, it's not certain that such technologies, on their own, satisfactorily answer a judicial model which, seen under the eyes of the post- conventional legitimacy and regulation, is adequate to complex societies. This illustrates that a judicial model, able to deal with the social plurality, must take into account not only the rules of instrumental rationality, but also the fundamental issues of communicative rationality. This current work intends to evaluate if the applicability of the instrumental rationality in the judiciary equally allows the law to extent the useful conditions of the communicative rationality to the consensual formation of will and opinion in the Democratic State of Law.
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- Law and technology security standard (2012)
- The author will deal with the relationship between law and technology from the viewpoint of technology security standard. One of the relationships can be found in that law has been providing a security level of technology. They have been saying that law would often follow technology. Law is too slow to adapt the changing technology through the advancement of technology. Above all, information technology has an electronic rapidity and a legislation technology has a paper one. There might be a big estrangement between law and technology. However, law must provide a security standard of technology. The standard must be based on a relative security level. The relative level would premise on the ordinary, lawful and ethical use of technology. Most technology has been opened to the public without any technology impact assessment. Technology would have some defect, which the producers have overlooked. As a result, the users might often meet with the accidents caused on the defects. Then law should provide a technology security standard to exclude the defects from the users' viewpoint as secure as possible. The security standard must be reflected on the architecture standard of technology. The architecture standard may be a yardstick whether the creators can evade the responsibility for the accidents. The standard would also premise on the ordinary, lawful and ethical use of technology. The ordinary use means that the users should use normally technology within the extent of the architecture standard. The ethical use means that the users should use technology being conscious of the defects in order to avoid accidents. The relative security level may be the sum of the architecture standard and the ethical use of technology.
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- The fusion of law and information technology (2012)
- In information society, legal norm communications have been never established in certain fields for a long time. That is, a few legal norms have never obeyed in the fields. Above all, legal norms which relate to data protection, information contents and information security, would often infringed. Most violation would be conducted by using information technologies. Information technologies would often be used in these infringing incidents. It can be said that these infringing incidents would have never been conducted without information technology. These infringing incidents include hacking actions, personal data abuse, personal information disclosure, unauthorized access, infringing copyrights, infringing privacy rights, and so on. A way of preventing those infringements is to raise the level of punishment against the violators. But, it will prove to be disappointing. Furthermore, it would be an ex post facto measure to the last. It would be needed to invent an ex ante measure, if it is possible. As the ex ante measure, the author proposes a fusion of law and information technology. An information technology will lead people to a lawful deed when they conduct actions in using computers and networks. They say that information technology cures information technology. After all, the fusion will aim at realizing laws, and it will contribute to recover a social justice.
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- Law and post-communist countries: case of Albania (2012)
- Communist regimes in general and especially the one in Albania destroyed almost every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life, including the notion of pluralism and intellectual elite of the country. In Albania, the transition into democracy in 90' was done through extrication which means that the authoritarian government was weakened, but not as thoroughly as in a transition by defeat. As a consequence, the former Communist elite was able to negotiate crucial features of the transition and was very quickly transformed into the new pluralist political class. This position enabled the communist elite to be rehabilitated and together with the new emerged communist elite to remain a strong influential actor in new emerged democracy and de facto to run in continuance the country. The purpose of the new emerged communist elite to maintain control was favored inter alia by the absence of a new strong intellectual elite and was done merely by sharing the power among its members divided into different political parties and also by using the 'pluralist' law as a tool for social control over new emerging intellectual elites. The use of law as a tool for social control by the political class has severely damaged people's understanding and expectations on the law, its relations with the state as well as international community. Indeed, such experience of the use of law by the political class for its own narrow interests, has made people lose confidence in law and state as well as has severely weakened the law enforcement in the country. To conclude, the overall purpose of this paper would be the analysis of law in general and its understandings and development in a post-communist society such as Albania from different points of view.
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- The conceptual question among sovereignty, biopolitics and law: a sensible point between Foucault and Agamben (2012)
- The concept of biopolitics has its origin on the Michel Foucault works developped since 1975 to 1979. In this period, the author introduced the foundations for a new approach about the modern government, based in both crescent enpowerment on individuals and the control of populations. The theme has attracted the attentions of some critical political studies, with many practical uses. However, I believe there is not enough consolidation about biopolitics as a concept and a comprehensive theory of the new political mechanisms. This uncertainness is more evident when the very role of Law is questioned in a biopolitical model, due to the archaic nature that Foucault gives to it. So the aim of the paper is to identify the theorical comprehension of biopolitics in a contemporary author as Giorgio Agamben to demonstrate his oppositions and proximities from the original idea of Michel Foucault. I propose that Agamben has the same difficulties of Foucault to deal with legal theory and Law inside biopolitics. Nevertheless, after a critical review on the works of this two authors, my conclusion is that a settlement of the concepts of Law and biopolitics depends of the surpassing of the Foucaldian version of Law as sovereignity, a clear delimitation of a common core between the authors and their differences and the research and affirmation of the concept of Law in Agamben, more well-refined than Foucault's one.


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That's a little harsh. He is at least qualified to be a boxercise insgructor.
"If a man with no arms and a man with no legs started learning karate, the same light bulb would appear over every head in Japan. Thats right: Glue them together and see if it can kill a panda."
Well, Dana White has begun the process of writing off another fighter he can't have.
Just another example of how quickly Dana White will turn on anyone (Not including Chuck Liddell of course. The only man Dana White ever loved).
Funny, wasn't too long ago I heard Dana saying that he wished the UFC was filled with fighters like GSP, or something along those lines. He just continues to bury himself with the fans.
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An improved holder, system and method for implanting a tissue-type prosthetic heart mitral valve that constricts the commissure posts of the valve and allows the user to detach the handle of the holder prior to withdrawing the holder itself. The ability to remove the handle allows a surgeon greater access to suturing the prosthetic valve to the mitral annulus. The holder may include two relatively movable plates, one of which attaches to the valve sewing on the inflow end of the valve ring and the other which attaches via sutures to the valve commissures on the outflow end. Separation of the plates places the sutures in tension and constricts the commissures. An adjusting member or adapter is interposed between the handle and holder to enable separation of the two plates and removal of the handle. The adjusting member or adapter may be packaged with the valve and holder combination, or may be sold as a separate unit, possibly with the handle, so that prior art holders can be retrofit. Removable storage and handling clips secure the holder and heart valve assembly within a storage jar during transportation. A kit of a number of identical storage and handling clips and holders for different diameter tissue-type prosthetic heart valves may be provided.
1. A kit of storage and handling clips and heart valve holders for different diameter tissue-type prosthetic heart valves, the heart valves each having an inflow end and an outflow end and a flow axis therebetween, each valve including an annular sewing ring at the inflow end, the kit comprising:
a set of holders each adapted to attach to the sewing ring at the inflow end of a valve and having a generally planar portion including a plurality of tangs radiating from a central body to cover a portion of the sewing ring, the tangs being radially dimensioned to correspond to the diameter of the respective sewing ring, and each holder including a plurality of peripheral notches in the planar portion; and
a plurality of identical storage and handling clips each having structure for removably engaging the peripheral notches in any one of the holders and enabling detachment from the holder attached to the sewing ring.
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a set of differently-sized holders each adapted to attach to a heart valve at the inflow end thereof and being radially dimensioned to correspond to the diameter of the respective heart valve; and
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The present application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/127,913, filed Apr. 23, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,702,852, which is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/746,431, filed Dec. 21, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,409,758, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/626,570, filed Jul. 27, 2000, now abandoned, the disclosures of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates generally to medical devices, and more particularly to an apparatus for facilitating the implantation of a bioprosthetic replacement heart valve, and associated methodology.
In mammalian animals, the heart is a hollow muscular organ having four pumping chambers: the left and right atria and the left and right ventricles, each provided with its own one-way valve. The natural heart valves are identified as the aortic, mitral (or bicuspid), tricuspid and pulmonary valves and have leaflets to control the directional flow of blood through the heart. The valves are each mounted in an annulus that comprises a dense fibrous ring attached either directly or indirectly to the atrial or ventricular muscle fibers. Various surgical techniques may be used to repair a diseased or damaged valve. In a valve replacement operation, the damaged leaflets are excised and the annulus sculpted to receive a replacement valve.
Two primary types of heart valve replacements or prostheses are known. One is a mechanical-type heart valve that uses a ball and cage arrangement or a pivoting mechanical closure to provide unidirectional blood flow. The other is a tissue-type or "bioprosthetic" valve which is constructed with natural-tissue valve leaflets which function much like a natural human heart valve's, imitating the natural action of the flexible heart valve leaflets which form commissures to seal against each other to ensure the one-way blood flow. In tissue valves, a whole xenograft valve (e.g., porcine) or a plurality of xenograft leaflets (e.g., bovine pericardium) provide occluding surfaces that are mounted within a surrounding stent structure. In both types of prosthetic valves, a biocompatible cloth-covered sewing or suture ring is provided on the valve body, for the mechanical type of prosthetic valve, or on the inflow end of the stent for the tissue-type of prosthetic valve.
In placing a tissue type prosthetic valve in the mitral position, the commissure posts are on the blind side of the valve and may become entangled with pre-installed sutures, and may damage the annulus or tissue during delivery. The difficulty of the delivery task is compounded if the surgery is through a minimally-invasive access channel, a technique that is becoming more common. The problem of entanglement is termed "suture looping," and means that the suture that is used to attach or mount the valve to the heart tissue is inadvertently wrapped around the inside of one or more of the commissure post tips. If this occurs, the looped suture may damage one of the tissue leaflets when tightly tied down, or at least may interfere with valve operation and prevent maximum coaptation of the valve leaflets, resulting in a deficiency in the prosthetic mitral valve.
Some attempts have been made to overcome these problems in current holders for prosthetic mitral valves. An example of such a holder is U.S. Pat. No. 4,865,600, Carpentier, et al., incorporated herein by reference. Carpentier provides a holder having a constriction mechanism that constricts the commissure posts inwardly prior to implantation. The Carpentier device provides an elongate handle to both hold the valve/valve holder combination during implantation, as well as to cause the commissure posts to constrict inwardly. The valve is connected to the valve holder by the manufacturer using one or more sutures, and the combination shipped and stored as a unit. During the valve replacement procedure, the surgeon connects the handle to the holder and locks a locking nut to hold the commissure posts at a given constricted position. The surgeon then attaches the sewing ring of the valve to the native valve annulus with an array of sutures that has been pre-embedded in the annulus and extended outside the body. The valve is then advanced along the array of sutures to its desired implantation position and the sutures tied off. When the holder is cut free, the commissure posts are released to expand and the holder may be removed using the handle. The inability to remove the elongate handle while maintaining commissure constriction is a detriment. The handle must be attached to the holder so that the commissure posts remain in a constricted position during attachment of the array of sutures to the sewing ring. This can be awkward for manipulation of the valve/valve holder combination during this time-constrained operation. Further, the relatively wide holder periphery may interfere with the attachment step.
What is needed then is an improved tissue-type prosthetic valve holder attachable to the inflow end of the valve that can constrict the commissure posts with or without a handle being attached, yet provides improved visibility and accessibility to the surgeon during the valve attachment steps.
The present invention provides a holder for a tissue-type prosthetic heart valve having an inflow end and an outflow end and a flow axis therebetween. The valve includes an annular suture ring at the inflow end attached to a stent having posts circumferentially-spaced about the flow axis that support occluding tissue surfaces of the valve. In this type of valve the posts are cantilevered generally in the outflow direction.
The holder includes a valve abutment portion sized and shaped to abut the suture ring at the inflow end of the valve. The holder further includes a commissure post constriction mechanism adapted to constrict the commissure posts radially inward from a relaxed position to a constricted position when actuated by a handle adapted to operatively connect to the commissure post constriction mechanism. A retaining mechanism is also provided that retains the commissure post constriction mechanism in the constricted position after the handle is removed.
In one embodiment the commissure post constriction mechanism comprises an adjusting portion and an adjusting member adapted to adjust the distance between the adjusting portion and the valve abutment portion and one or more filaments attached to the adjusting portion and sutured through the end of the commissure posts distal the adjusting portion. When the adjusting member is operated to separate the adjusting portion from the valve abutment portion the adjusting portion pulls the filaments, which in turn urge the end of the commissure posts distal the adjusting portion radially inwardly, to the constricted position.
The valve abutment portion may be of a planar shape, with the adjusting portion of a substantially complementary planar shape to the valve abutment portion. It is preferred that the planar shape of the valve abutment portion be comprised of a plurality of tangs radiating from a central body to each cover a portion of the suture ring. In this manner a sufficient amount of the suture ring is left exposed to allow for suturing the suture ring to the native annulus.
Adjustment of the distance between the valve abutment portion and the adjusting portion may be achieved by providing a central threaded aperture in the adjusting portion and an adjusting member that cooperates with this threaded aperture. In this construction the end of the adjusting member proximal the valve abutment portion abuts the valve abutment portion during operation. When the adjusting member is advanced through the central aperture of the adjusting portion it pushes the valve abutment portion and the two portions separate.
A handle may be operatively connected to the adjusting member to turn it by providing a handle that has an externally threaded end portion and an adjusting member having a central longitudinal threaded bore sized to receive the threaded end of the handle. When the handle is introduced into the bore it is rotated in a first direction and will seat in the threaded bore of the adjusting member. Further rotation of the adjusting member separates the adjusting portion from the valve abutment portion, as recited above, and causes the commissure posts to constrict inwardly.
In the prior art the handle would have to remain attached during suturing of the suture ring to the host tissue to keep the commissure posts in the constricted position. The holder with the handle connected were removed by severing the filament(s) and removing the holder, handle and filaments together.
In accordance with the present invention, the adjusting member itself may be adapted to be the retaining mechanism. Preferably, the adjusting member threads create a greater frictional resistance with the threaded aperture of the adjusting portion than that between the threaded end of the handle and the threaded bore of the adjusting member. This frictional resistance between the adjusting member and the central aperture allows the handle to be further rotated in a second, opposite direction, and the handle will detach or unscrew from the adjusting member without moving the adjusting member, leaving the commissure posts in the constricted position. The tug of the filaments themselves on the adjusting portion when the commissure posts will cause the adjusting member/central aperture thread interface to bind and so may be used to achieve the requisite additional frictional resistance required for allowing the handle to be unscrewed.
In alternative embodiments other mechanisms may be used in accordance with the invention to act as the retaining mechanism. For example, a ratchet assembly may be provided to lock the valve attachment and adjusting portions apart, allowing the handle to be removed while leaving the commissure posts in the constricted position. A ratchet assembly may be comprised of a one or more toothed members affixed to the valve abutment portion that each engage a complementary notch, opening or, for example, a pawl affixed to the adjusting portion. As the valve abutment portion and the adjusting portion are separated by the adjusting member the successive teeth of the toothed member engage the notch, opening or pawl affixed to the adjusting portion, locking the two portions apart.
The present invention further provides a method for retrofitting a holder for a tissue-type prosthetic mitral heart valve attachable to a surgical delivery handle. The heart valve is of the type having an inflow end and an outflow end and a flow axis therebetween, and includes an annular suture ring at the inflow end and radially flexible commissure posts circumferentially-spaced around the outflow end that support occluding tissue surfaces of the valve. The holder has a commissure post constriction mechanism releasably attached to the sewing ring at the inflow end of the valve, the mechanism adapted to constrict the valve commissure posts radially inward from a relaxed position to a constricted position when actuated by the delivery handle. The method includes providing a retaining mechanism that retains the commissure post constriction mechanism in the constricted position after the delivery handle is removed. The retaining mechanism may be provided during the holder assembly process so that the retaining mechanism is attached to and shipped as a unit with the prosthetic valve. Alternatively, the retaining mechanism may be provided separately from the holder and valve combination and the method includes coupling the retaining mechanism to the holder at the time of surgical implantation of the valve. The retaining mechanism and delivery handle may be packaged and sold as a unit. The retaining mechanism desirably comprises an adapter that is interposed between and threadingly engaged to the holder and the handle.
Further in accordance with the invention a method for replacing a heart valve is provided, comprising the steps of removing an existing heart valve to leave an annulus of that heart valve, attaching a holder of the invention to a prosthetic tissue-type heart valve and constricting the commissure posts of the prosthetic heart valve with a handle; inserting the valve through the annulus of the heart valve; removing the handle while leaving the commissure posts in the constricted position; suturing the tissue-type heart valve to the heart annulus, and detaching the holder from the prosthetic heart valve.
After suturing the heart valve to the annulus the surgeon severs the filament, causing the posts of the stent to open to the relaxed, operational position. The severing of the filament(s) also releases the holder from the prosthetic heart valve, allowing it to be removed.
A further understanding of the nature and advantages of the present invention are set forth in the following description and claims, particularly when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which like parts bear like reference numerals.
The present invention provides an improved heart valve holder for tissue-type prosthetic heart valves that facilitates implantation and reduces the chance of suture entanglement. The holder of the present invention is particularly useful for prosthetic mitral heart valves having commissure posts on the outflow side supporting flexible leaflets therebetween. The mitral position is such that the outflow side (and commissure posts) projects distally toward the left ventricle during implantation, and thus the holder must be attached to the inflow (i.e., accessible) side of the valve. Delivery of the valve to the mitral position involves sliding the valve down a plurality of sutures that have been pre-installed around the annulus and then passed through the valve sewing ring. The holder of the present invention constricts the commissure posts radially inward and thus helps prevent the posts from becoming entangled in the array of pre-installed sutures. This benefit is thus particular to the situation where the outflow side (and commissure posts) of the heart valve extends distally during delivery, which is the case in the mitral position. Nonetheless, the holder of the present invention may prove useful for the implantation of heart valves in other than the mitral position, and thus the invention may be applicable thereto.
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Various constructions for the heart valve 22 are known, which may include metallic or plastic stent elements, a silicone or urethane insert for the sewing ring 24, biocompatible fabric (i.e., polyester) covering around one or more of the elements, etc. In a preferred embodiment, the heart valve 22 includes an internal metallic wireform (not shown) having an undulating shape with a plurality of arcuate cusps connected by upstanding commissures. The wireform commissures provide internal structure for the commissure posts 26 of the valve, and are somewhat flexible so as to be able to flex or cantilever inward. The holder 20 of the present invention facilitates this flexing, though the invention is generally directed toward causing the inward movement of the commissure posts. Of course, other internal constructions of heart valve 22 having movable commissure posts are available, with which the holder 20 of the present invention may function equally as well.
With reference still to
A plurality of filaments or sutures 60 are shown in
As mentioned, the abutment portion 40, adjusting portion 44, and adjusting member 50 are relatively movable. That is, the adjusting portion 50 is adapted to cause relative axial displacement between the abutment portion 40 and the adjusting portion 44. Because the abutment portion 40 remains against the sewing ring 24, the adjusting portion 44 translates proximally away from the abutment portion, and attached valve 22. This is seen in
Now with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5A-5B, structural details of the holder 20 of the present invention will be explained. As mentioned above, the valve abutment portion 40 is generally plate-like, and preferably includes a central, generally triangular body 70 having three outwardly extending tangs 72 at the apices thereof. Two through holes 42 are providing in each of the tangs 72, spaced apart along an imaginary circle centered in the triangular body 70. Three upstanding pins or legs 74 having hooks 76 project from the proximal face of the body 70, preferably inward and between each two tangs 72.
The adjusting portion 44, as best seen in
Each tang 84 features a suture cutting guide 86 that projects from the proximal face of the body 80. Each cutting guide 86 includes a central cutting recess 88 defined between a pair of suture grooves 90. A cutting recess 88 extends generally radially, while the suture grooves 90 are angled with respect thereto. The depth of the suture grooves 90 is less than the depth of the cutting recess 88, as seen in
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At one of its free ends, the suture 60 passes between the suture grooves 90 within one of the cutting grooves 86. Each length of suture 60 is secured at both ends to different through holes 46 in the adjusting portion 44. Additionally, each two adjacent lengths of suture 60 are secured to the same through hole 46. That is, as seen in
The holder 20 of the present invention works in conjunction with a delivery handle 110, as seen in
With reference to
Now with reference to
In a preferred embodiment, the frictional resistance to rotation between the adjusting member 50 and the adjusting portion 44 is greater than the frictional resistance to rotation between the handle 110 and the adjusting member 50. Consequently, once the commissure posts 26 have been radially constricted, as indicated in
To insure the handle 110 can be removed without reversing the adjusting member 50 with respect to the adjusting portion 44, however, the materials are chosen to enhance the inequality in frictional resistance, as mentioned above. That is, the materials of the adjusting member 50 and adjusting portion 44 are chosen so as to have a greater frictional resistance to relative sliding movement than between the materials of the handle 110 and adjusting member 50. In one embodiment, the adjusting member 50 and adjusting portion 44 are made of the same or different polymers, while handle 110 is metal. Resistance to relative sliding movement between metal and polymer is generally less than that between two polymers. In a preferred embodiment, both the adjusting member 50 and adjusting portion 44 are made of DELRIN, while handle 110 is made a stainless-steel.
After all the sutures 130 have been pre-installed in the mitral annulus MA and threaded through the sewing ring 24, the valve 22 is lowered along the plurality of sutures 130 so that the sewing ring 24 contacts and lies flush against the mitral annulus MA, as seen in
Finally, after securing the valve 22 within the mitral annulus MA, each of the lengths of suture 60 is severed at the cutting guides 86 to facilitate removal of the holder 20 from the valve 22.
The present invention contemplates a number of different structures that cause constriction of tissue-type valve commissure posts using a handle, while also permitting removal of the handle without releasing the commissure posts.
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Three fingers 168 depend downwardly from the disk portion 162 in the direction opposite the direction that the handle 164 may be lifted. Each finger 168 includes an inwardly directed pawl 170 sized to couple with a holder 20 of the present invention. More specifically, the three fingers 168 are circumferentially spaced 120� around a common axis of the holder 20 and clip 160 so as to engage the peripheral notches 100 on the adjusting portion 44 of the holder. As mentioned previously, the peripheral notches 100 for different sized valve holders are radially spaced a consistent distance from the axis. Therefore, the same size clip 160 may be used to couple to a plurality of holders for different sized valves, thus reducing the inventory of clips required. After coupling the clip 160 to the holder 20 (or adjusting member 50), the handle 164 may be used to lower the valve 22 into a storage and shipping container 172, as seen in
The mitral valve holder 20 of the present invention provides an additional advantage over earlier mitral valve holders, such as the holder shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,865,600 to Carpentier, et al. Specifically, prior holders such as that shown in the Carpentier patent were relatively wide in dimension so as to unnecessarily interfere with attachment of the sutures to the valve and the valve to the annulus.
The holder shown in the Carpentier patent, for example, includes a disk-shaped outer holder plate to which a delivery handle attaches.
After the pre-threading is complete, the surgeon connects a handle 192 to the holder 180 and slides the valve and holder combination down the array of sutures 190 into position in the annulus 182. Because the disk-shaped outer plate 186 is so large, as seen in
The present invention provides a holder permitting greater visibility of the valve to help alleviate the aforementioned problems associated with the time-critical processes of pre-threading and then sliding the valve and holder into place.
The body 80 includes three generally linear sides 202 extending between the tangs 84 (although each side is interrupted by the aforementioned clip-receiving notches 100). The sides 202 separate from and expose the surrounding portions of the sewing ring 200. Indeed, the sides 202 expose the inner volume of the valve, such that leaflets 204 of the valve can be seen from the inflow end thereof. It will therefore be appreciated that the task of pre-threading the array of sutures around the sewing ring 200 is facilitated by the increased visibility of the sewing ring provided by the triangular-shaped holder 20. More specifically, the surgeon can pre-thread the array of sutures around the sewing ring 200 with greater confidence that no sutures are placed too far radially inward or outward, and that they are evenly circumferentially spaced. At a minimum, the time needed to complete this task is reduced. Furthermore, as the valve is introduced to the surgical site along the array of sutures, the surgeon can inspect the leaflets 204 from the inflow side thus enhancing early detection of any suture looping or entanglement that will be visible from the inflow side in the form of a deformed leaflet.
The present invention may provide an improved valve holder as described above, or adapters as described below may be used to retrofit valve holders of the prior art. In particular,
As seen in
The present invention provides an adapter 250 to be interposed between the delivery handle 246 and internally threaded boss 244, having a distal male threaded portion 252 and a proximal female threaded portion 254. The distal male threaded portion 252 is configured to mate with the internally threaded boss 244, while the proximal female threaded portion 254 receives the threaded end 248 of the handle 246.
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In contrast, the adapter 250 of the present invention permits the delivery handle 246 to be removed while maintaining plate separation.
There are number of ways to ensure that the handle 246 may be retracted from engagement with the adapter 250 while leaving the adapter in place. For example, and as mentioned above in conjunction with the earlier embodiment, the coefficient of friction between the materials of the engaging threads can be such that the handle 246 can be easily removed. For example, the upper plate 222 is typically molded from a polymer such as Delrin, and the adapter 250 can be formed of a similar material to produce a relatively high coefficient of friction between the respective threads. At the same time, the handle 246 may be made of stainless-steel, for example, which produces a lower coefficient friction between the male threads 248 and the female threads of the proximal adapter portion 254. If the adapter 250 is made a suitable polymer, such as the material of the holder, it may be coupled to the holder prior to packaging, shipping and storage. Many tissue-type heart valves are stored in a preservative solution, such as glutaraldehyde, and material of the holder and adapter 250 must be able to withstand long periods of immersion in such solutions.
Alternatively, the adapter 250 may also be made of stainless-steel, with the relative coefficients of friction being favorable for reversal and removal of the handle 246. In this configuration, the adapter 250 may be sold as a separate article to be coupled with existing delivery handles to retrofit prior art systems. In this manner, both the handle 246 and adapter 250 are able to withstand the high temperatures of steam sterilization, and may be reused.
Another way to ensure that the adapter 250 remains coupled to the upper plate 222 while the handle 246 can be removed is to provide slightly dissimilar thread patterns on the adapter and female threads of the upper plate boss 244. As the handle 246 and adapter 250 are threadingly engaged to the boss 244, the dissimilar threads tend to bind and lock the adapter to the upper plate 222. Consequently, the handle 246 can be easily reversed and de-coupled from the adapter 250.
A still further method of preventing the coupling of the adapter 250 and upper plate 222, while permitting removal of the handle 246, is to provide a groove, raise rib, or similar expedient on the adapter that engages with a mating feature on the upper plate. For example, although not shown, the lower surface of the proximal portion 254 may include a raised radially-directed rib that mates with a groove or similar rib on the upper surface of the boss 244. After the two parts 250, 222 are threadingly engaged, as seen in
A still further configuration in accordance with the present invention is illustrated
It will be appreciated that the invention has been described hereabove with reference to certain examples or preferred embodiments as shown in the drawings. Various additions, deletions, changes and alterations may be made to the above-described embodiments and examples without departing from the intended spirit and scope of this invention. Accordingly, it is intended that all such additions, deletions, changes and alterations be included within the scope of the following claims.
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Dante and Lulu get in bed to celebrate the day they found their surrogate. Later, they toast to Rocko or Juliet. She is worried they are tempting fate by talking about names. Dante is not worried. The only reservation is the obvious – Maxie. He thinks one of them should be with her all the time. Lulu doesn't want to squander the last nine or so months they have alone. They hit the sheets again, and after she suggests Maxie move in with them. He refuses. He still wants a life. If she does not trust Maxie then just put guidelines in the contract. She has not thought about a contract but he insists. But if the three of them live together they will not be able to be intimate.
Ellie asks Maxie about the ultimatum she gave Spin when she gets back to the apartment. Airing her feelings is the surest way to exorcize them. Plus, she wants to repair the rift between her and Maxie too. Maxie insists she has already has moved on. An amazing opportunity fell in her lap. She is going to be Dante and Lulu's surrogate. Spin is stunned and is not so sure it is good news. Ellie is impressed – she was wrong about her. Later, Maxie listens in as Spin worries about her. When they are alone she lets him know she is still upset he chose Ellie over her.
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I recently saw this on a moms discussion board, and thought I would get others' take on it here. I should preface by saying I've heard many comments like this before, usually in discussions among moms advocating home birth, doula or midwife- assisted birth in birth centers, avoiding hospitals and OBs, pro-VBAC discussions, and so on, articles and discussions and posts citing high C-section rates and blaming doctors for unnecessary intervention.
What struck me about this one is that it's by an OB, it is a blog post being circulated by Texas moms, where the doctor (jokingly?) list situations where moms should suspect their OB is performing an unnecessary c-section. One of the items specifically mentions preeclampsia.
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CHURUBUSCO — Eighteen people, including two local residents, were arrested Saturday night after police were tipped off to a dog-fighting contest.
On Friday, Whitley County Sheriff's Department detectives were tipped off to the contest, that scheduled to take place Saturday night at Eddie Smith's home at 906 E. Ind. 205 in Churubusco.
The investigation led to a search warrant, and at approximately 11 p.m., officers from the Whitley County Sheriff's Department and Indiana State Police raided the home, taking 18 people and three dogs into custody.
An injured, bloody pitbull was found inside inside a fighting ring that was located in the garage.
Police say two more dogs were found inside the home, including another bloodied pit bull. All three dogs were taken to the Whitley County Humane Shelter.
Smith was charged with animal neglect, resisting law enforcement, possession of paraphernalia and resisting law enforcement and is being held at the Whitley County Jail. Robert Stouder, 39, Churubusco, was the only other Whitley County person arrested.
One female was booked in the case, Bambi Sue Langon, 46, Three Rivers, Mich. The rest of the suspects were black males, charged with attending a dog fighting contest, a Class A Misdemeanor, with a $4,000 bond.
The suspects include: Marco C. Sole, 39, Chicago; Alvegas R. Nelson, 31, Joilet, Ill.; Donaver L. Jones, 42, Gary; Darrell G. Thames, 50, Three Rivers, Mich.; Marlin L. Mitchell, 46, Matteson, Ill.; Rudolph H. Allen, 53, Chicago; Mack A. Tucker, 41, Chicago; Excell L. Hazzard, 44, Chicago; John L. Patrick, 29, Joliet, Ill.; Chante L. Houlden, 33, Harvey, Ill.; Cortez A. Flowers, 37, East Chicago; Kordi S. Williams, 41, Joilet, Ill.; John J. Abram, 32, Lansing, Ill. and Alden C. Parsons, 80, Evanston, Ill.
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The Tug Valley Panther athletic teams may be joining a new Class A conference.
Head football coach Tony Clusky, who has been serving as the school's Athletic Director, recently attended a meeting about the proposed conference.
Clusky said some of the schools that are interested in forming the new Single A conference are Buffalo of Putnam, Man, Van and Sherman.
The talks are just in the preliminary stages. No name has been selected for the new conference, according to Clusky.
He said there would likely be eight schools if the new conference comes to fruition. Other possible high schools that could be invited to join the new league are Meadow Bridge and Valley of Fayette.
Clusky also announced that he will be resigning as AD at the school, but will continue to coach football.
… The annual Panther Pride Basketball Camp will be held June 10, 11 & 12 at the Tug Valley gym.
Tug Valley head coach Garland 'Rabbit' Thompson and his staff will be conducting the skills and fundamental hoops camp. Kids from K-4th grade will attend from 9-11:30 a.m., while 5th-8th grades players will participate from 12 noon to 2:30 p.m. The price is $40 and campers will get a T-shirt. For more info or to pre-register call 304-235-1531, 235-2261 or 304-784-5298.
… Mingo Central tennis player Kyle Surber is playing in the state tournament today in Charleston. He plays Drew Poling of St. Mary's at around 12 noon at the Charleston Catholic Athletic facilities.
… WVU's Ryan Nehlen will get a chance to show his skills to the Detroit Lions. The former Mountaineer receiver and Morgantown native has been offered a spot at the Lions' rookie mini-camp this coming weekend as a tryout player. Nehlen is the grandson of former WVU head coach Don Nehlen. He didn't have the most impressive stats at WVU, but when called upon, he did a good job. He played behind two NFL draft picks and another player who signed as a free agents.
His pro day workout numbers were solid - 4.53 seconds in the 40-yard dash, 39-inch vertical jump and over 11 feet on the broad jump. Nehlen hopes to become a doctor. So if he doesn't make it he has something to fall back on.
… Apparently the state's high school basketball player of the year, Donte Grantham, is no longer on coach Bob Huggins radar. Grantham, of Martinsburg, was offered a scholarship once one became available. WVU had three players who decided to transfer a couple of weeks ago.
But, Grantham apparently couldn't make up his mind. So Huggins has brought in two other players, Remi Dibo of Casper Junior College in Wyoming and Jonathan Holton, a 6-foot-7, 215-pound forward.
Dibo, listed at 6-foot-9, 225 pounds, is a rangy forward with the ability to shoot the 3-pointer.
A Miami native, Holton currently attends Palm Beach State Community College in Florida and attended Rhode Island in 2011-12. He was originally recruited by several Division One schools out of Mountain State Academy in Beckley. He is from Paris, France. He will have two years of eligibility remaining.
The two new recruits join Nathan Adrian (Morgantown, W.Va./Morgantown HS), Elijah Macon (Columbus, Ohio/Brewster Academy [N.H.]), Brandon Watkins (Decatur, Ga./Grady HS) and Devin Williams (Cincinnati, Ohio/Montverde Academy [Fla.]) in the 2013-14 recruiting class.
When Dibo took his visit over the weekend, he was joined by Holton, who signed on Monday, and point guard Jeff Newberry, a target to potentially join the Mountaineers for 2014 out of Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.
As for 6-7 Grantham, as the old saying goes, "you snooze, you lose." WVU couldn't keep waiting on him to make up his mind. It would have been good for the program to get one of the state's top players, however, many think he was a project. Grantham may be headed to a prep school or be red-shirted if he signs with another school.
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Phoenix, Ariz. – The New Mexico State men's golf team finished overall at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational at the par-71, 7,031-yard Karsten Golf Course. The Aggies carded a team score of 8-over par, 292 in the final round and rounded out the tournament at 15-over par, 867 (289-286-292).
"Kenneth played great golf today," head coach Mike Dirks said. "Brett and Justin had good counter scores but we just didn't have that fourth score we needed. I think we can compete at conference, we just need to put the whole tournament together and we will be near the top at the end."
Freshman Kenneth Fadke led NM State in the third round with a 5-under par, 66, carding three birdies, an eagle on his way to a bogey free final round. For the tournament, Fadke was 6-under par, 207 and tied for fifth overall. His 66 is the best round for him in his Aggie career and was also the lowest round of the day in the tournament.
Senior Justin Shin was 2-over par, 73 in the final round, carding four birdies. Shin tied for 30th with a three round score of 3-over par, 216 (71-72-73). Sophomore Brett Walker was also 2-over par, 73 in the final round and finished tied for 43rd for the tournament at 6-over par, 219 (75-71-73).
Junior Willy Hogan and senior Derek Baade both carded rounds of 9-over par, 80. Hogan tallied a three-round score of 15-over par, 228 (74-74-80), finishing tied for 82nd, while Baade was 16-over par, 229 for the tournament, placing tied for 85th overall.
UNLV won the team tournament at 9-under par, followed by Cal (-8), San Diego (-5), New Mexico (-2), California (-2) and San Diego State (E). Nick Chianello of Oregon State finished atop of the leader board at 11-under par.
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PRESTONSBUR, Ky. – The Belfry Pirates lost another close game on the road at Prestonsburg falling 4-3 on Thursday evening.
The Blackcats held a 4-0 lead heading into the final inning when Belfry rallied for three runs, but that is all they could muster and lost another heartbreaker.
In the top of the 7th inning, with one out, Belfry's Zack Francisco singled to right field and then Reed Williamson walked. With two outs, Zac Fields delivered an RBI single to left to knock in two runs.. Then Eli Huddle had an RBI single to left field to account for the other run.
Zack Francisco had two singles for Belfry, while Sean Hurley got Belfry's first hit of the game, and his first of the season, a single to right field with one out in the 4th frame.
Prestonsburg scored a run in the 1st inning. Grant Anderson singled to right, Bryson Williams singled to left and Anderson to third base. Then Trey Stapleton smacked a sac fly to Huddle.
The Blackcats to another run in the 3rd inning when Anderson doubled to right center, Williams reached safely on an error by BHS pitcher Keaton Taylor. Taylor bobbled the comebacker and Anderson scored on throw to first base.
In the 4th inning Prestonsburg's Jarin Hall led off and reached on an error by the shortstop Williamson. Hall reached second base on another error on the throw to first base. Hall advanced to third on an error by the catcher, Francisco, on an attempted pick-off throw. With two outs, Reece Ison, the designated hitter, cracked an RBI double to left field.
The final run, which proved to be the game winner for the home team, came in the 5th inning. Williams singled to center, followed by a single by Stapleton, which advanced Williams to third base. Williams scored on an error by Francisco.
Taylor was the hard-luck loser for the Pirates hurling a complete game. He fanned 13 batters and did not walk any Blackcats. He only allowed one earned run. Adam Griffith was the winning pitcher for Prestonsburg.
Belfry is now 12-15 on the season, while Prestonsburg improved to 19-0.
Score by innings:
PHS …. 1 0 1 1 1 0 x - 4 6 5
WP: Adam Griffith 4 shutout innings of relief;
LP: Taylor, CG 6-hitter, 13K's, 1 HBP; 0 BB; 1 earned run.


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In the Hello World lesson, we added to the index.jsp a Struts 2 url tag to create a hyperlink to the hello.action. This tutorial will explore the url and other Struts 2 tags further.
Web applications differ from conventional websites in that web applications can create a dynamic response. To make it easier to reference dynamic data from a page, the Struts 2 framework offers a set of tags. Some of the tags mimic standard HTML tag while providing added value. Other tags create non-standard, but useful controls.
One use of the Struts 2 Tags is to create links to other web resources, especially to other resources in the local application.
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When you run the Hello World tutorial in your Servlet container and then mouse over the Hello World hyperlink created by the Struts 2 url tag you'll see that the URL created is hello.action (relative to the web context's root folder).
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A common use case is that the URL also needs to include a value for a query string parameter such as userName. To add a query string parameter and its value use the Struts 2 param tag, nested inside the url tag.
For the Using Tags tutorial add the following to index.jsp just after the link for Hello World.
Rather then put the url tag as the value for the anchor tag's href attribute, we've separated out the s:url tag into its own code block. Nested inside the url tag is the Struts 2 param tag. This tag lets you specify a parameter name (e.g. userName) and a value for that paramter (e.g. Bruce Phillips).
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Ive been paying a lot of attention to advertising signs and billboards while on the road lately. I dont text and drive during my frequent travels, but I do take the occasional peek at the signs along the way.
And Im all about subliminal messaging.
My problem is, I dont think the subliminal message I take away from these signage glimpses is the message advertisers had in mind.
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A billboard spotted along Hwy. 17A between Moncks Corner and Summerville said this: Low cost toothpick sized dental implants...
There is nothing about the phrase toothpick sized that offers any comfort when it involves sticking something toothpick sized anywhere in my mouth except perched on my lower lip.
It hurts just reading it, but the sign makers added a visual aid of the inside of my mouth to show what they meant by implant.
Implant means to permanently attach by any method possible. They want it stuck, but good.
I have problems with dentists to begin with. I dont want anybody anywhere near my mouth wielding a hammer and a bunch of ten-penny nails and saying, Open wide, this will pinch just a little.
Driving onward, I was stopped at a traffic light behind a mini-van covered with advertisement signs touting the services of a local tanning, nail and electrolysis establishment.
The sign said: Hair Removal Wax JUST $65, Laser Treatment $99.99.
Translated... For just $65, we will surgically remove your liver using nothing but duct tape.
I dont know what sadistic malcontent invented the waxing process anyway. You spread hot wax the consistency of peanut butter up and down your leg with a Popsicle stick.
Once the wax is in place and before it cools, you press on strips of butcher paper, and wait.
When you feel like the wax and paper have formed a solid bond you then grab hold of the paper strip at the corner, count down 3, 2, 1..., whisper a quiet prayer asking for swift deliverance from Dantes Fifth Level of Hell, and yank hard.
As for the laser treatment reference, Ive seen all the Star Wars and Star Trek movies and I know what lasers can do.
The descriptive metaphor Sizzle! usually follows.
During my radio days I signed an endorsement deal with a local laser treatment facility, only in this case the laser therapy was designed to relieve stress and help you relax.
Just lie back and relax, the gum-popping technician said as she fired up the thermo-nuclear device.
The lights dimmed, but only for a minute.
Where do you aim the laser? I queried.
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And what is the laser supposed to do?
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I saw what that did to Jack Nicholson.
I was doing laundry over the weekend and had purchased an off-brand economy sized bottle of detergent.
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It says so right on the bottle.
Maybe the summer product marketing intern didnt get the job offer he wanted and decided to say good-bye with style.
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