US 2026/0053615 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PACKAGING AND PREPARING A PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE AND ASSOCIATED DELIVERY SYSTEM

Abstract

A valve cover apparatus for use in a medical assembly including a prosthetic valve and a valve delivery apparatus. The valve cover apparatus includes a housing, a chamber disposed within the housing for receiving a prosthetic heart valve in an at least partially expanded state, a tapered surface defining a portion of the chamber, and a lock ring that is axially movable over at least a portion of the housing between a locked position and an unlocked position. The tapered surface is enables loading and/or guiding of the prosthetic heart valve from the chamber of the valve cover apparatus into a delivery sheath of the valve delivery apparatus and transition the prosthetic heart valve to a radially compressed state. The lock ring restricts movement of the valve cover relative to the delivery sheath when in the locked position, and enables movement of the valve cover when in the unlocked position.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A packaging system comprising:

a tray configured for securing a prosthetic valve and an elongated delivery system;
and
a valve cover, wherein the valve cover is configured to maintain the prosthetic valve in a compressed state inside the valve cover around a distal portion of the elongated delivery system, and wherein the valve cover is removable from the prosthetic valve and the delivery system;
wherein the tray comprises:
a cavity comprising an open end, a floor, and a peripheral side wall defining a depth of the cavity, the cavity sized and shaped to house the valve cover;
and
a mounting surface configured to removably couple the valve cover to the floor of the cavity.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

19/373,362Filed 29 Oct 2025

Priority

2 Sep 2015

Published

26 Feb 2026

Term ends

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Classification20 codes

A61F 2/0095
Filters implantable into blood vessels; Prostheses, i.e. artificial substitutes or replacements for parts of the body; Appliances for connecting…:…
A61F 2/2427
Heart valves ; Vascular valves, e.g. venous valves; Heart implants, e.g. passive devices for improving the function of the native valve or the…:…
A61F 2/9525
Means for mounting a stent or stent-graft onto or into a placement instrument: using a funnel
A61B 50/33
Containers specially adapted for packaging, protecting, dispensing, collecting or disposing of surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments: trays

Family

Application62/213,536Us provisional application · filed 2 Sep 2015

Application15/250,759Division · filed 29 Aug 2016

Application16/506,912Continuation · filed 9 Jul 2019

Application17/365,418Continuation · filed 1 Jul 2021

Application19/373,362Continuation

Application16/506,912Division

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Method and system for packaging and preparing a prosthetic heart valve and associated delivery system

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Method and system for packaging and preparing a prosthetic heart valve and associated delivery system

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Abstract

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