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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Aga Medical Corporation, Plymouth, MN (US);
Inventor:
Gregory James Dakin, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/08 (2006.01); A61B 17/12 (2006.01); A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61F 2/07 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/12122 (2013.01); A61B 17/12172 (2013.01); A61B 17/12118 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2002/077 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0069 (2013.01);
Abstract
An occluder for sealing gaps between a medical device and adjacent body tissue includes an expandable body configured to fill the gaps between the medical device and the body tissue. The occluder includes a fastener at one end of the body and adapted to couple to a first end of the medical device, and an expandable disk at the other end of the body and adapted to couple to the medical device at a position spaced from the first end.