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Deployment system incorporating application of adhesive

  • US 10,219,792 B2
  • Filed: 05/22/2015
  • Issued: 03/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of implanting a medical device in a body lumen comprising:

  • advancing a delivery catheter having the medical device disposed within an interior of the delivery catheter, through the body lumen to a deployment site, the medical device being selected from the group consisting of stents and valves, the delivery catheter defining at least one adhesive delivery channel having at least one discharge opening that either faces distally and extends through a distal end face of the delivery catheter to discharge adhesive in a distal direction distally beyond the distal end face, or that extends through a sidewall of the delivery channel and faces radially outward from the delivery channel relative to a longitudinal axis of the delivery catheter to discharge adhesive in a radially outward direction, for discharging the adhesive therefrom; and

    thereafter, deploying the medical device from the delivery catheter at the deployment site while discharging an adhesive from the adhesive delivery channel in the delivery catheter during deployment of the medical device, the adhesive being discharged onto the medical device, a wall of the body lumen, or combinations thereof.

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