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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2012
Jennifer E. Raeder-devens, St. Paul, MN (US);
Susan I. Shelso, Plymouth, MN (US);
James F. Hemerick, Champlin, MN (US);
Eric M. Schneider, Excelsior, MN (US);
Heather L. Getty, Plymouth, MN (US);
Doreen M. Borgmann, Hopkins, MN (US);
Kakao Sisombath, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Jeffrey A. Helgerson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Jennifer E. Raeder-Devens, St. Paul, MN (US);
Susan I. Shelso, Plymouth, MN (US);
James F. Hemerick, Champlin, MN (US);
Eric M. Schneider, Excelsior, MN (US);
Heather L. Getty, Plymouth, MN (US);
Doreen M. Borgmann, Hopkins, MN (US);
Kakao Sisombath, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Jeffrey A. Helgerson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A prosthesis delivery and deployment device includes an elongate and flexible outer catheter. The outer catheter has a tubular wall of layered construction, including translucent layers, opaque layers, and a braid composed of helically wound metal filaments. The outer catheter has a translucent distal adapted to constrain a radially self-expanding prosthesis in a radially reduced, axially elongated state. Because the stent constraining region is translucent, an endoscope can be used to visually monitor the stent when so constrained. Radiopaque markers can be mounted to the outer catheter and to an inner catheter used to deploy the prosthesis, to afford a combined visual and fluoroscopic monitoring for enhanced accuracy in positioning the prosthesis, both before and during its deployment.