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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2007
Nianjiong Joan Bei, Foster City, CA (US);
Keif Fitzgerald, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick C. Saxton, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zhicheng Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven A. Tyler, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Joanna Lubas, Fremont, CA (US);
Nianjiong Joan Bei, Foster City, CA (US);
Keif Fitzgerald, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick C. Saxton, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zhicheng Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Steven A. Tyler, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Joanna Lubas, Fremont, CA (US);
Abbott Cardiovascualr Systems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A catheter system and method for implanting an endoprosthesis such as a stent at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter provides a complete system for stent delivery, dilatation, and delivery and/or recovery of an expandable device, such as an embolic protection device, adjacent to the treatment site in the body lumen.