# US 2024/0197503 A1 · Method of use for delivery system for radially constricting a stent graft

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- Number: US 2024/0197503 A1
- Document ID: US20240197503A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/226,477
- Filed: 2023-07-26
- Published: 2024-06-20
- Earliest claimed: 2017-02-24
- Assignees: Bolton Medical, Inc.
- Applicants: Bolton Medical, Inc.
- Inventors: Eduardo Alejandro Garcia
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20240197503A1

## CPC

- A61F 2/95: Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts
- A61F 2/07: Stent-grafts
- A61F 2/954: for placing stents or stent-grafts in a bifurcation
- A61F 2/9662: {the middle portion of the stent or stent-graft is released first}
- A61F 2/9517: {handle assemblies therefor}
- A61F 2002/9511: {the retaining means being filaments or wires}
- A61F 2002/9665: {with additional retaining means}
- A61F 2220/0075: sutured, ligatured or stitched, retained or tied with a rope, string, thread, wire or cable
- A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C)

## Abstract

A stent graft delivery system includes a handle, a guidewire catheter extending distally from the handle, at least one tube, and at least one wire extending through the at least one tube, wherein each wire of the stent graft delivery system is configured as a loop at the distal end of the tube. The stent graft delivery system can be employed to implant stent grafts in a patient to thereby treat, for example, an aortic aneurysm spanning a region of an aorta that includes at least one arterial branch.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of implanting a stent graft at an aneurysm site of a subject, comprising the steps of:
a) directing a stent graft to an aneurysm site of the subject, a proximal end of the stent graft being held in a radially constricted position by at least one wire configured as a loop that extends through at least two tubes and is at least partially secured to the stent graft in a delivery system, wherein the delivery system includes
i) a handle,
ii) a guidewire catheter extending distally from the handle and having a proximal end and a distal end, the guidewire catheter defining a longitudinal axis,
iii) the at least two tubes, each having a proximal end and a distal end, the tubes extending distally from the handle and arranged in parallel with the guidewire catheter,
iv) the at least one wire extending through two of the at least two tubes, wherein each wire is configured as the loop at the distal end of the at least two tubes, and having at least one proximal end at the handle, and
v) the stent graft having the proximal end and a distal end, and defining a lumen, the stent graft extending about the guidewire catheter and the at least two tubes, wherein the distal ends of the tubes are within the lumen, the loop of the at least one wire at least partially securing the stent graft by being positioned within the stent graft, whereby pulling the at least one wire at the proximal end of at least one of the at least two tubes causes reduction in a length of the loop and consequent radial constriction of the stent graft at the loop; and
b) variably moving the proximal end of the at least one wire at the handle in a distal or proximal direction, to variably increase and decrease radial constriction of the stent graft to assist axial and longitudinal alignment of the stent graft at the aneurysm to thereby implant the stent graft at the aneurysm of the subject.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the at least two tubes is a first pair of tubes arranged in parallel and the at least one wire is a single wire that extends through the first parit of tubes, the loop linking a portion of the single wire extending within each respective tube.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2, wherein the stent graft includes a plurality of stents and a luminal graft component, the stents each extending about the luminal graft component and distributed along a longitudinal axis of the luminal graft component, and wherein at least a portion of the stents include struts that are joined to define proximal apices and distal apices.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The method of claim 3, wherein the stent graft further includes a plurality of sutures, and the single wire extends through the sutures at the loop of the at least one wire to thereby secure the stent graft.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the stent graft includes a bare stent at the proximal end, and wherein the bare stent is secured at the distal end of the guidewire lumen.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The method of claim 4, wherein the sutures are nested between the struts of the stents, whereby retraction of the at least one wire extending through the sutures causes radial constriction of the loop of the at least one wire and, consequently, radial constriction of the stents.

### Claim 7 (depends on 7)

The method of claim 7, wherein the plurality of sutures are nested distally to respective proximal apices of the respective stent.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one wire includes two wires, wherein the loops of the respective wires are arranged longitudinally along the longitudinal axis of the guidewire catheter relative to each other, and further including a plurality of sutures associated with each other and with each of the at least two wires, and wherein each of the at least two wires extend through the associated sutures at the loop of each of the ate least two wires to thereby secure the stent graft.

### Claim 9 (depends on 6)

The method of claim 6, wherein each of the at least two wires radially constrict a respective stent of the plurality of stents.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein each of the at least two wires extend through at least two sutures of the plurality of sutures, and each of the sutures is nested distally to a proximal apex of a respective stent of the plurality of stents.

### Claim 11 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein the at least two wires are independently operable.

### Claim 12 (depends on 9)

The method of claim 9, wherein the at least two wires are independently releasable from the remainder of the stent graft delivery system, whereby the wires can be removed from the sutures at the stent graft, thereby releasing the stent graft from the at least two wires.