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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2006
Dharmendra Pal, Wilmington, MA (US);
Mark A. Magnuson, Bloomington, IN (US);
Dharmendra Pal, Wilmington, MA (US);
Mark A. Magnuson, Bloomington, IN (US);
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Abstract
An embolic protection device for deployment in a body vessel is provided for filtering emboli within the body vessel. The embolic protection device generally includes a filter having a plurality of openings formed therethrough and an extraction element configured to be movable with respect to the filter between a non-extraction position and an extraction position. The extraction element is located distally of the filter when in the non-extraction position so as to allow the filter to open into an expanded state to collect the emboli. Additionally, the extraction element is disposed about at least a portion of the filter when in the extraction position so as to close the filter into a collapsed state and to permit the embolic protection device to be extracted from the body vessel.