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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2014
Medtronic Corevalve Llc, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Than Nguyen, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Jacques Seguin, Paris, FR;
Stan Komatsu, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Hung Nguyen, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Georg Boertlein, Meudon, FR;
Medtronic CV Luxembourg S.a.r.l., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
Methods for delivering a prosthetic heart valve include advancing a delivery catheter containing the prosthetic heart valve to a deployment native heart valve, advancing an inner core movably coupled to a restraining sheath of the delivery catheter to expose a first end of the prosthetic heart valve, and advancing the inner core and the restraining to expose a second end of the prosthetic heart valve. The delivery catheter can include a distal flange located at a distal end of an outer core of the catheter body, configured to restrict distal longitudinal displacement of the prosthetic heart valve, and a retaining structure located proximally from the distal flange along the outer core of the catheter body, configured to restrict proximal longitudinal displacement of the prosthetic heart valve.