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US 11,583,401 B2Granted
Heart valve repair
AssigneeMedtronic Vascular, Inc.
InventorsMichael Gloss, Caitlin Dorff, Fatemeh Fatemi Far, Emily Grimm, Matthew E. Genovese, Olivia Metcalf, Karan Punga, Eric Pierce
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Abstract
An example medical system includes a medical device configured to join the edges of the leaflets together, an elongate body configured to be navigated through vasculature to a heart valve of patient, and a plurality of tissue engagement devices extending from a distal end of the elongate body, each tissue engagement device comprising at least one clamp configured to capture leaflets of the heart valve.
Claims11
A medical system comprising:
- a catheter configured to access vasculature of a patient, the catheter comprising:
- a handle comprising a control member;
- and an elongate body, a proximal end of the elongate body being mechanically coupled to the handle;
- and a plurality of extension members extending from a distal end of the elongate body of the catheter, each of the extension members comprising:
- a plurality of clamps configured to hold leaflets of a native mitral valve;
- and at least one actuation member controllable at the control member of the handle and configured to move the plurality of clamps of each of the extension members from an open configuration to a closed configuration to engage the leaflets;
- and a helical coil configured to join the leaflets of the native mitral valve;
- wherein each of the extension members plurality of clamps are configured to be removed from the leaflets after the helical coil has been deployed to join the leaflets.
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A medical device comprising:
- an elongate body;
- a plurality of extension members extending from a distal end of the elongate body;
- each extension member comprising:
- a plurality of clamps, wherein the plurality of clamps are configured to hold leaflets of a native mitral valve;
- and a helical coil configured to join the leaflets of the native mitral valve, wherein the plurality of clamps are configured to be removed from the leaflets after the helical coil has been deployed to join the leaflets.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.