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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2013
Nvt Ag, Muri, AG, CH;
Marcos Centola, Sao Paulo, BR;
Emilia Kawa, Hechingen, DE;
NVT AG, Muri AG, CH;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a deployment system () for deploying an expandable cardiac valve prosthesis. The deployment system comprises a first tube () being designed to carry an expandable cardiac valve prosthesis; further, a tip (), being firmly connected to the first tube at a distal end of the first tube, wherein the tip is designed such, that it detachably accommodates and holds a proximal end () of a cardiac valve prosthesis (); a sheath () designed to be disposed over and holding the prosthesis () in a compressed state, and a first actuating mechanism () being linked to the sheath () and being slidable in a proximal direction for stepwise retracting the sheath (). The deployment system () further comprises a biasing element being linked to the tip (), and a blocking mechanism (), wherein the blocking mechanism is being designed such, that a movement of the first actuating mechanism () in the proximal direction relative to the tip () is limitable to a maximum path of travel by the blocking mechanism ().