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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2010
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 Cardiovascular Shstems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A catheter system for implanting an endoprosthesis at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter includes an elongated shaft outer member and a stent sheath distal portion and a self-expanding stent radially restrained in a collapsed configuration within the stent sheath distal portion. A balloon catheter dimensioned for relative axial movement within the shaft outer member has an elongated shaft having an inflation lumen and a device receiving lumen. A stent stop secured to the balloon catheter is reversibly radially expandable to deploy from a collapsed to a radially expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, the stent stop prevents longitudinal displacement of the stent. A balloon is located on a distal shaft section is releasably locked with respect to the shaft outer member and slidably disposed therein in an unlocked configuration.