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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2015
Merit Medical Ireland Limited, Dublin, IE;
Menashe Yacoby, Shoham, IL;
Ascher Shmulewitz, Tel Aviv, IL;
Raz Bar-On, Moshav Tel Adashim, IL;
Gil Naor, Ramat-Hasharon, IL;
Damian Kelly, Galway, IE;
Michael Gilmore, Galway, IE;
Mark Steckel, Sharon, MA (US);
MERIT MEDICAL IRELAND LIMITED, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A delivery system that includes a catheter, a balloon, a self-expanding prosthesis, and a sheath. The sheath including an opening in a wall of the sheath that initiates rupturing of the sheath so that the self-expanding prosthesis may move from its compressed state to its expanded state. Additionally, a distal end portion of the balloon that is distal to a distal end of the sheath includes an enlarged diameter portion, the enlarged diameter portion having approximately the same outer diameter as an outer diameter of the sheath when the self-expanding prosthesis is in its compressed state, and the enlarged diameter portion being the maximum outer diameter of the balloon when the self-expanding prosthesis is in its compressed state.