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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2021
Kardion Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Leon Wenning, Stuttgart, DE;
Inga Schellenberg, Stuttgart, DE;
Johannes Bette, Balingen, DE;
Armin Schuelke, Aidlingen, DE;
David Minzenmay, Stuttgart, DE;
Marvin Mitze, Stuttgart, DE;
Hardy Baumbach, Stuttgart, DE;
Ingo Stotz, Ditzingen, DE;
Mario Heintze, Dresden, DE;
Thomas Friedrich, Dresden, DE;
Evelin Matthes, Dresden, DE;
Hans Christof, Unterensingen, DE;
Kardion GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
Disclosed is a mechanical circulatory support system for transcatheter delivery to the heart, having a removable guidewire aid to assist with inserting the guidewire along a path that avoids a rotating impeller. The system may comprise a catheter shaft and a circulatory support device carried by the shaft. The device may comprise a tubular housing, an impeller and the guidewire aid. The guidewire aid may include a removable guidewire guide tube. The guide tube may enter a first guidewire port of the tubular housing, exit the tubular housing via a second guidewire port on a side wall of the tubular housing on a distal side of the impeller, enter a third guidewire port on a proximal side of the impeller, and extend proximally through the catheter shaft.