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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Mark Krans, Hopkins, MN (US);
Theodore Paul Dale, Corcoran, MN (US);
Andrea N. Para, St. Louis, MO (US);
Mathias Charles Glimsdale, St. Michael, MN (US);
Thomas M. Benson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Peter N. Braido, Wyoming, MN (US);
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A loading tool for loading a collapsible prosthetic heart valve into a delivery device may include a body extending in a longitudinal direction between a proximal end and a distal end, an extension on the distal end of the body, and a slot extending through the extension from a free end of the extension toward the distal end of the body. The body may include a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal end, the body lumen having a first diameter. The extension may have a lumen coaxial with the body lumen, the extension lumen having a second diameter less than the first diameter so as to define a shelf surface between the proximal end of the body and the free end of the extension.