Inflation adjustment attachment device for precise medical device deployment and methods relating to the same
AssigneeMiRus LLC
InventorsAlex Panter, Jason White, Jay Yadav, Jorge Jimenez
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Abstract
Inflation adjustment attachment devices, systems, and methods for accurately deploying a medical device. The inflation adjustment attachment devices, systems, and methods are configured to allow for the controlled increase of the balloon volume during inflation of the prosthetic heart valve, and thereafter without having to deflate the balloon, enable an additional volume to be added to the inflation device.
Claims27
A method for deploying a medical device at a treatment area;
- said method comprising:
- providing an inflation device that is configured to inflate a balloon that correspondingly expands said medical device or to directly expand said medical device;
- preparing the inflation device with a predetermined amount of a material to inflate the balloon and/or to expand said medical device;
- coupling a first inflation adjustment attachment device to said inflation device, and wherein said first inflation adjustment attachment device is configured to function as a first stop to limit a first amount of said material initially inserted into said balloon or medical device during use of said inflation device;
- causing said inflation device to administer said first amount of said material to said balloon or said medical device until said first inflation adjustment attachment device at least partially prevents further material from being administered to said balloon or medical device;
- enabling said inflation device to subsequently allow a second amount of said material to be inserted into said balloon or medical device that correspondingly causes further inflation of said balloon or further expansion of said medical device;
- said step of enabling includes a) uncoupling and removing said first inflation adjustment attachment device from said inflation device and thereafter causing said inflation device to administer a second amount of material into said balloon or medical device to cause further inflation of said balloon or further expansion said medical device, or b) moving said first inflation adjustment attachment device a distance on said inflation device to a new position and thereafter maintaining said first inflation adjustment attachment device on said inflation device at said new position, and wherein movement of said first inflation adjustment attachment device to said new position enables said inflation device to administer said second amount of material into said balloon or medical device after said first inflation adjustment device has been moved to said new position on said inflation device to thereby cause further inflation of said balloon or further expansion of said medical device;
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- wherein said second amount of material that is further administered by said inflation device to said balloon or said medical device corresponds to a) a predetermined thickness of said first inflation adjustment attachment device that was previously coupled to said inflation device, or b) said distance that said first inflation adjustment device was moved on said inflation device.
An inflation adjustment attachment device for use with an inflation device;
- said inflation adjustment attachment device comprising:
- an arrangement for removably coupling said inflation adjustment attachment device to a plunger of an inflation device and wherein the inflation device is configured to inflate a balloon or medical device;
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- a body having predetermined thickness.
An inflation device system that is configured to inflate a ballon or medical device at a treatment area;
- said method inflation device system comprising:
- an inflation device that is configured to inflate said balloon or to expand said medical device;
- said inflation device includes a housing having a housing cavity that is configured to receive a material;
- and a plunger having a shaft;
- said plunger is at least partially movably disposed within said housing cavity;
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- a first inflation adjustment attachment device that is connected to said plunger;
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- wherein said first inflation adjustment attachment device is configured function as a first stop as said shaft is inserted along a longitudinal length of said housing cavity to limit a first amount of said material to be initially inserted into said balloon or said medical device during said inflation of said ballon or said expansion of medical device;
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- wherein removal of said first inflation adjustment attachment device from said shaft or repositioning said first inflation adjustment attachment device along a longitudinal length of said shaft enables said shaft to be further inserted into said housing cavity to insert additional amounts of said material into said inflatable balloon or said medical device.
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