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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2018
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Damien Vincent Nolan, Galway, IE;
Martyn G. Folan, Galway, IE;
Martin Hynes, Galway, IE;
Thomas Martin Keating, Galway, IE;
Bryan Forde, Galway, IE;
Kathleen Corcoran, Watertown, MA (US);
Kevin M. Reavis, Portland, OR (US);
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A delivery system for delivering an implant having both a rigid portion and a flexible portion to a body lumen. The delivery system includes an outer tubular member and an inner tubular member slidably disposed within the lumen of the outer tubular member. The inner tubular member includes at least one opening positioned in a side wall adjacent to a distal end region. An expandable implant, including a rigid portion and a flexible portion, is disposed about the outer surface of the inner tubular member. A distal portion of a thread is wrapped around the flexible portion of the implant and configured to maintain the flexible portion in a radially collapsed configuration during delivery of the implant. A distal end region of the outer tubular member is disposed around the rigid portion of the implant to maintain the rigid portion in a radially collapsed configuration during delivery of the implant.