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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2019
Applicant:
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventor:
Joseph Arthur Passman, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Assignee:
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61M 25/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/2436 (2013.01); A61F 2/2433 (2013.01); A61M 25/0662 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for delivering medical implants has an expandable introducer sheath which can locally expand and lengthen to accommodate passage of a delivery catheter and implant, such as a prosthetic heart valve secured to a balloon catheter. The expandable sheath may be configured so that the local expansion is proportional to the local surface lengthening.