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Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2021
Applicant:

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);

Inventor:

Michael G Valdez, Riverside, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/11 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/11 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00243 (2013.01); A61B 2017/1107 (2013.01); A61B 2017/1135 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of managing left atrial pressure involves advancing a delivery catheter to a right atrium of a heart of a patient via a transcatheter access path, advancing the delivery catheter through an interatrial septum wall into a left atrium of the heart, deploying a distal end of a bypass fluid conduit from the delivery catheter, anchoring the distal end of the bypass fluid conduit to a pulmonary vein, withdrawing the delivery catheter through the interatrial septum wall, thereby exposing at least a portion of a medial segment of the bypass fluid conduit in the left atrium, anchoring a proximal end of the bypass fluid conduit to the interatrial septum wall, and withdrawing the delivery catheter from the heart.


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