Everting transcatheter valve and methods
AssigneeW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
InventorsWilliam C. Bruchman, Cody L. Hartman
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Abstract
Described embodiments are directed toward centrally-opening, leaflet valve devices and systems for transcatheter delivery having a two-piece valve body as well as methods of making and delivering the two-piece valve devices. A transcatheter valve includes a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The transcatheter valve can further include an everted configuration and a non-everted configuration.
Claims9
A method of delivering, via an intravascular procedure, a transcatheter valve including a multi-part frame having a first portion and a second portion, and one or more leaflets coupled to the multi-part frame, the transcatheter valve having a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, the method comprising:
- positioning the transcatheter valve at an implantation site in the collapsed configuration;
- expanding the transcatheter valve;
- everting the multi-part frame of the transcatheter valve;
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- securing the transcatheter valve at the implantation site;
- further comprising loading the transcatheter valve onto a distal section of an elongated flexible catheter such that the first portion of the multi-part frame is coaxially, laterally adjacent to an spaced apart from the second portion of the multi-part frame and transcatheter valve is in the collapsed configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.