Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Jeremy B Beer

Yunbing Wang

James Oberhauser

Mark C Johnson

Sean A McNiven

Travis Richard Yribarren

Rommel Lumauig

Boyd V Knott

Kathleen Yan

Lily Ayo Roberts

Brenna Hearn Lord

Annie Liu

Jason Phillips

Marc L Speck

Steve Saville

Sean A Mcniven

A medical device includes a scaffold crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. The scaffold is crimped to the balloon by a process that includes inflating the delivery balloon during a diameter reduction to improve scaffold retention and maintaining an inflated balloon during the diameter reduction and prior and subsequent dwell periods.

Methods for increasing a retention force between a polymeric scaffold and a delivery balloon

A medical device-includes a scaffold crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. The scaffold is crimped to the balloon by a process that includes inflating the delivery balloon during a diameter reduction to improve scaffold retention and maintaining an inflated balloon during the diameter reduction and prior and subsequent dwell periods.

A medical device includes a polymer scaffold crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. A sheath pair is placed over the crimped scaffold after crimping to reduce recoil of the crimped polymer scaffold and maintain scaffold-balloon engagement relied on to hold the scaffold to the balloon when the scaffold is being delivered to a target in a body. The sheath pair is removed by a health professional before placing the scaffold within the body.

Sheaths used with polymer scaffolds

Sheaths used with polymer scaffold

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Jeremy B Beer