Medtronic Vascular, Inc.

Deirdre McGowan Smyth

Niall F Duffy

Patrick Griffin

John Gallagher

Marc A Anderson

Gerry Oliver McCaffrey

Paul Devereux

Frank Harewood

Evelyn Birmingham

Frank White

Sarah E Ahlberg

Constantin Ciobanu

Donna Barrett

Bernard Patrick Mulvihill

Kieran Cunningham

Herinaina Rabarimanantsoa Jamous

Embodiments hereof relate to a delivery system for a transcatheter valve prosthesis, the delivery system having an integral centering mechanism to circumferentially center both the delivery system and the valve prosthesis within a vessel at the target implantation site. The centering mechanism may include expandable wings that may be selectively aligned with openings formed through a sidewall of an outer shaft of the delivery system, a coiled wing that may be selectively exposed through an opening formed through a sidewall of an outer shaft of the delivery system, a plurality of elongated filaments extending through a plurality of lumens of an outermost shaft of the delivery system that may be selectively deployed or expanded, an outer shaft that includes at least one pre-formed deflection segment formed thereon, a tool having a deployable lever arm, and/or a plurality of loops deployable via simultaneous longitudinal and rotational movement.

Delivery system having an integral centering mechanism for positioning a valve prosthesis in situ

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Ballybrit, Ireland

Deirdre McGowan Smyth