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US 2017/0246436 A1Published application
Vacuum-based compliance restoration
AssigneeEdwards Lifesciences Corporation
InventorsGregory Bak-Boychuk, Yaron Keidar, Bingquan Su
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Abstract
A compliance restoration device includes a compliance balloon lumen, a chamber support structure disposed in the compliance balloon lumen and configured to expand to support an expanded volume of the compliance balloon lumen, and a spring assembly configured to cause the chamber support structure to expand by applying a force on a first end of the chamber support structure.
Claims24
A compliance restoration device comprising:
- a compliance balloon lumen;
- a chamber support structure disposed in the compliance balloon lumen and configured to expand to support an expanded volume of the compliance balloon lumen;
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- a spring assembly configured to cause the chamber support structure to expand by applying a force on a first end of the chamber support structure.
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A method for treating a heart valve, said method comprising:
- introducing a compliance restoration device into a target blood vessel in an at least partially collapsed state using a delivery catheter;
- expanding an anchor structure of the compliance restoration device to contact an inner wall of the target blood vessel;
- and
- expanding outward a chamber support structure to support a balloon portion of the compliance restoration device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.