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US 2023/0264012 A1Published application
Intravascular blood pumps with struts and methods of use and manufacture
AssigneeShifamed Holdings, LLC
InventorBrian D. BRANDT
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Abstract
Catheter blood pumps that include an expandable pump portion, which include an expandable impeller housing. The housings include an expandable blood conduit that defines a blood lumen, and one or more pluralities of expandable struts extending axially from an end region of the expandable blood conduit. At least one of the pluralities of struts are non-unitary with a blood conduit at the end region.
Claims12
A method of manufacturing a pump portion of a catheter blood pump, comprising:
- coupling each of a plurality of struts to an end region of an expandable scaffold, the expandable scaffold part of an expandable blood conduit that defines a blood lumen;
- and
- positioning one or more collapible impellers at least partially within the blood lumen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.