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US 8,075,608 B2Granted
Medical device delivery system
AssigneeCardiac Dimensions, Inc.
InventorsLucas S. Gordon, Mark L. Mathis, Gregory Nieminen
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Abstract
A system for selectively deploying a medical device includes a cartridge that is engageable with a proximal end of a delivery catheter that is routed to a desired location in a patient's body. An advancement mechanism is provided for advancing the medical device out of the cartridge and into the delivery catheter for deploying the medical device at the desired location in the patient's body.
Claims20
A system for selectively advancing a medical device into a patient;
- comprising:
- a delivery catheter having a distal end that is adapted to be inserted into a patient's body, a proximal end adapted to remain outside the patient's body and one or more lumens that extend between the proximal end and distal end;
- a cartridge that is engageable with the proximal end of the delivery catheter, the cartridge including a lumen that aligns with a lumen in the delivery catheter when the cartridge is engaged with the proximal end of the delivery catheter;
- a medical device adapted to be disposed within the lumen of the cartridge;
- an actuator associated with a handle, the actuator adapted to be actuated to axially displace the cartridge and delivery catheter relative to the handle and medical device;
- and
- an advancing member adapted to engage the medical device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.