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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
May. 21, 2018
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Darshin S. Patel, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Boaz Manash, Givat Ada, IL;
Tri D. Tran, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Ofir Witzman, Kfar Saba, IL;
Yoav Rozen, Binyamina, IL;
Alexander J. Siegel, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
David M. Taylor, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A delivery catheter is in various embodiments configured to deliver an anchoring device to a native valve annulus of a patient's heart, where the anchoring device can better secure a prosthesis at the native annulus. The delivery catheter can includes a distal section that includes one or more spines or is laser cut to assume a particular shape for better facilitating delivery of the anchoring device at the implant site and can include a flexible tube, a first pull wire, and a second pull wire. The flexible tube can comprise a bore extending between the first end and the second end sized for passing the anchoring device therethrough. The distal portion can comprise a first flexing section and a second flexing section. Actuation of the first pull wire and the second pull wire can cause the flexible tube to move from a first configuration to a second configuration.