Medical device for modification of left atrial appendage and related systems and methods
AssigneeCoherex Medical, Inc.
InventorsScott D. Miles, Brian K. Whisenant, Daryl R. Edmiston, Clark C. Davis
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Abstract
A medical device, system and method for modifying a left atrial appendage (“LAA”). The medical device system includes a tether anchored within the LAA and one or more tissue growth members or occluders configured to be slid over the tether and lodged within the LAA. With this arrangement, a physician may close-off the LAA with a selective number of tissue growth members to meet the varying LAA sizes as determined from imaging information while conducting the procedure.
Claims20
A method for modifying a left atrial appendage, comprising:
- anchoring a medical device with tines within the left atrial appendage;
- deploying a tissue growth member of the medical device by exposing the tissue growth member from a catheter so that, as the tissue growth member is exposed, the tissue growth member self-expands to a deployed position, the medical device including threads being directly rotatably coupled to a threaded pusher member;
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- maintaining the tissue growth member in the left atrial appendage with a locking element, the locking element including multiple fingers that collapse directly dependent upon proximally moving the threaded pusher member relative to the tissue growth member.
A method for modifying a left atrial appendage, comprising:
- anchoring a medical device having tines to the left atrial appendage;
- deploying a tissue growth member of the medical device by exposing the tissue growth member from a sheath so that, as the tissue growth member is exposed, the tissue growth member self-expands to a deployed position;
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- disengaging a threaded pusher member from threads of the medical device upon collapsing multiple fingers of a locking element directly dependent upon proximally displacing the threaded pusher member relative to the tissue growth member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.