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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2018
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
John Kantor, Healdsburg, CA (US);
Claudio Silvestro, Healdsburg, CA (US);
Shashank Raina, San Rafael, CA (US);
MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
A medical device includes a catheter, an expandable balloon on the distal portion of the catheter, and a sheath that is configured to enclose and protect the expandable balloon. The sheath extends within a sheath lumen of the catheter and out from the catheter through a distal opening of the sheath lumen. When in a deployed configuration, the sheath extends proximally to enclose at least a portion of the expandable balloon. The sheath may be axially movable within the sheath lumen of the catheter to actuate from the deployed configuration to a retracted configuration. In moving to the retracted configuration, the sheath may expose the outer surface of the expandable balloon.