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US 2023/0414337 A1Published application
Embolic Protection Device
AssigneeFortuna Clinical, LLC
InventorsJan Skowronski, Mark Carlson
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Abstract
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for a distal protection system. The system may include a delivery catheter, an embolic protection apparatus, and a retrieval catheter. An improved embolic protection apparatus which includes a wire, an expandable loop connected to a porous filter, with two legs used to connect the loop to the wire is provided. Embolic protection apparatuses that can be used in a wide diameter range of lumens is disclosed.
Claims20
An embolic protection apparatus comprising:
- a wire with a collapsible basket positioned near a distal end of the wire;
- and the collapsible basket comprising an expandable loop with two legs, the two legs connected to the wire at a connection, and a porous filter attached at one end to the loop;
- wherein the two legs extend along the wire between the collapsible basket and the connection.
An embolic protection apparatus comprising:
- a wire with a collapsible basket positioned near a distal end of the wire;
- the collapsible basket comprising an expandable loop connected to the wire, and a porous filter attached at one end to the loop;
- and
- wherein the expandable loop has a non-round shape when in an unconstrained and expanded position.
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An embolic protection apparatus comprising:
- a guide wire;
- a support member comprising a first leg, a loop and a second leg, the first leg attached to the guide wire at a junction, the first leg extending distal to the junction, the second leg attached to the guide wire at the junction, the second leg extending distal to the junction, the loop extending distal to the first leg and the second leg, the loop defining an aperture, the guide wire extending through the aperture;
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- a porous filter attached to the loop.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.