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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Heartware, Inc., Miami Lakes, FL (US);
Inventors:
Joel Graham, Sunny Isles, FL (US);
Charles R. Shambaugh, Coral Gables, FL (US);
Assignee:
HeartWare, Inc., Miami Lakes, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/12 (2006.01); A61M 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/122 (2014.02); A61M 1/101 (2013.01); A61M 2205/04 (2013.01); A61M 2210/125 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of implanting a blood pump in a heart of a mammalian subject includes maintaining a temporary plug in an inlet opening of a pump having a pump body and an outlet cannula projecting from the pump body, advancing the pump into a ventricle of the heart through a hole in a wall of the heart so that the inlet of the pump is disposed within the ventricle and the outlet cannula extends through a valve of the heart into an artery, and then withdrawing the temporary plug from the inlet of the pump.