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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2018
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Caytlin Gale, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ryan Finn, St. Paul, MN (US);
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
An assembly for collapsing a prosthetic heart valve includes a compression member having a plurality of arms pivotable between a first orientation in which side edges of adjacent arms are spaced apart from one another and a second orientation in which the adjacent arms contact one another. A translating member is movable along the arms to pivot the arms from the first orientation to the second orientation to collapse the prosthetic heart valve. A separation tool includes ribs defining channels sized to receive the struts of a stent of a prosthetic heart valve to keep the struts separated from one another as the prosthetic heart valve is collapsed.