W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Other

Patrick M Norris

Matthew G Sondreaal

Dustin C Burkart

Stephanie M Walsh

Roberta A Bloss

David J Arcaro

Dustin V Dienno

Russell L Jacoby

Joshua C Haarer

Benjamin A Smith

Olga Baykova

Jason T Alger

Edward J Hoopingarner

Anthony P Peterson

Austin A Byrne

Martin J Sector

Thomas E Kariniemi

Susan J Rudes

Joseph M Viskocil

Murray F B Andress

Jonathan D Combe

Jr Thomas R Geary

Jake M Golden

Anette I Pico

Matthew J Zukaitis

Various examples relate to a transcatheter delivery system including a sheath, a delivery catheter, and an implantable device (e.g., a prosthetic valve, a stent, a stent graft, occluder, or vascular filter) maintained in a collapsed configuration by the delivery catheter. The delivery catheter includes a plurality of fiber guides separated by one or more reduced profile sections each having a smaller transverse outer profile than the transverse outer profiles of the fiber guides.

Transcatheter deployment systems and associated methods

The present disclosure describes treatment of the vasculature of a patient with an expandable implant. The implant is constrained to a reduced delivery diameter for delivery within the vasculature by at least one sleeve. The implant can be constrained to other diameters, such as an intermediate diameter. The sleeves can be expanded, allowing for expansion of the diameter of the expandable implant, by disengaging a coupling member from the sleeve or sleeves from outside of the body of the patient. The expandable implant can comprise a steering line or lines which facilitate bending and steering of the expandable implant through the vasculature of a patient.

External steerable fiber for use in endoluminal deployment of expandable devices

An endoprosthesis delivery system includes an expandable endoprosthesis including a side branch portal, a first primary sleeve releasably constraining a proximal portion of the expandable endoprosthesis to a collapsed configuration, a second primary sleeve in parallel with the first primary sleeve, the second primary sleeve releasably constraining a distal portion of the expandable endoprosthesis to the collapsed configuration, and a secondary sleeve within the first primary sleeve. Upon release of the first primary sleeve, the secondary sleeve releasably constrains the proximal portion of the expandable endoprosthesis to a partially expanded configuration allowing access to the side branch portal via the partially expanded proximal portion of the expandable endoprosthesis.

Staged deployment of expandable implant

The present disclosure describes systems for endoluminal devices utilizing a sleeve for constraining an expandable device toward a constrained configuration suitable for endoluminal delivery to a treatment site along vasculature; and a mechanism for retracting at least a portion of the sleeve.

Sleeve retraction system

The present disclosure describes treatment of the vasculature of a patient with an expandable implant. The implant is constrained to a reduced delivery diameter for delivery within the vasculature by at least one sleeve. The implant can be constrained to other diameters, such as an intermediate diameter. The sleeves can be expanded, allowing for expansion of the diameter of the expandable implant, by disengaging a coupling member from the sleeve or sleeves from outside of the body of the patient. The expandable implant can comprise an apposition line or lines which facilitate bending of the expandable implant to improve conformation of the expandable implant to the vasculature of the patient.

Apposition fiber for use in endoluminal deployment of expandable implants

An implantable system for endoluminal delivery of expandable devices having one or more sleeves and one or more sleeve pull back lines. The sleeve pull back lines enable retraction of the one or more sleeves, with various benefits resulting therefrom.

Friction fiber sleeve retraction system

A removable sleeve extends around an expandable stent graft to constrain the expandable stent graft toward a collapsed configuration. The sleeve is held together by a coupling member to constrain the expandable device toward the collapsed configuration for endoluminal delivery to a vascular treatment site. The sleeve is openable by displacing the coupling member away from the sleeve to allow outward expansion of the expandable device toward an expanded configuration. The sleeve is separate from the expandable device so as to be removable from the treatment site after deployment of the expandable device.

Systems and methods of deployment of endoluminal devices

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Patrick M Norris