Devices, kits and methods for placing multiple intraluminal medical devices in a body vessel

• US 20040225344A1
• Filed: 04/23/2004
• Published: 11/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cook Medical Incorporated (Cook Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Cook Medical Incorporated (Cook Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Flagle, Jacob A., Hoffa, Andrew K., Garrison, Michael L.
• Application Number:
  US10/831,564
• Publication Number:
  US 20040225344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 623/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2412 with soft flexible valve members, e.g. tissue valves shaped like natural valves check valves with flexible valve members in general F16K15/14
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2436 Deployment by retracting a sheath
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2475 Venous valves
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/95 Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/826 more than one stent being applied sequentially

Abstract

Devices, kits, and methods for delivering multiple intraluminal medical devices into a body vessel are provided.

Claims

1. A method of delivering multiple medical devices into a body vessel, comprising:

providing a sheath that defines a lumen;

providing a plurality of medical devices capable of being advanced through the lumen;

advancing the sheath through said body vessel;

advancing a first medical device of the plurality of medical devices through the lumen;

deploying the first medical device at a first point of treatment in said body vessel;

advancing a second medical device of the plurality of medical devices through the lumen;

deploying the second medical device at a second point of treatment in said body vessel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first medical device is disposed within the sheath to form a delivery assembly, and wherein advancing the sheath and advancing a first medical device comprise advancing the delivery assembly through said body vessel.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein advancing a second medical device comprises advancing a dilator having the second medical device disposed thereon.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein advancing a second medical device comprises connecting a housing member containing the second medical device to the sheath and advancing the second medical device out of the housing member and into the sheath.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of medical devices comprises a prosthetic valve.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein each of the plurality of medical devices comprises a prosthetic venous valve.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first medical device comprises a prosthetic valve and the second medical device comprises a stent.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first medical device comprises a stent and the second medical device comprises a prosthetic valve.

9. A method of implanting multiple prosthetic venous valves in a body vessel, comprising advancing a sheath defining a lumen into said body vessel, advancing a first prosthetic valve through the lumen, and advancing a second prosthetic valve through the lumen without removing the sheath from said vessel.

10. A method of implanting a plurality of medical devices at a plurality of points of treatment in a body vessel, comprising:

inserting a sheath defining a lumen into said body vessel at an insertion point;

advancing the sheath to a first point of treatment of said plurality of points of treatment;

deploying a first medical device of said plurality of medical devices;

retracting the sheath to a second point of treatment of said plurality of points of treatment;

advancing a second medical device of said plurality of medical devices through the lumen; and

deploying the second medical device of said plurality of medical devices.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first and second medical devices each comprise a prosthetic valve.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first and second medical devices each comprise a prosthetic venous valve.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the first medical device comprises a prosthetic valve and the second medical device comprises a stent.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the first medical device comprises a stent and the second medical device comprises a prosthetic valve.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein advancing a second medical device comprises advancing a dilator having the second medical device disposed thereon.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein advancing a second medical device comprises connecting a housing member containing the second medical device to the sheath and advancing the second medical device out of the housing member and into the sheath.

17. A kit for implanting a plurality of intraluminal medical devices, comprising:

a sheath defining a lumen; and

a plurality of carriers, each of the plurality of carriers including one of said plurality of intraluminal medical devices and capable of being operably associated with the sheath.

18. A kit according to claim 17, wherein the plurality of carriers comprises a plurality of elongate members, each of the plurality of carriers having one of said plurality of intraluminal medical devices disposed thereon.

19. A kit according to claim 18, wherein each of the plurality of elongate members includes a jacket member disposed around the one of said plurality of intraluminal medical devices.

20. A kit according to claim 17, wherein the plurality of carriers comprises a plurality of housing members, each of the plurality of housing members defining a passage and having one of said plurality of intraluminal medical devices disposed in the passage.

21. A kit according to claim 20, wherein the sheath defines a first connector and each of the plurality of housing members defines a second connector adapted for mating with the first connector.

22. A kit according to claim 20, further comprising an obturator adapted for advancing each of said plurality of intraluminal medical devices through one of said plurality of housing members and into the lumen of the sheath.

23. A kit according to claim 17, wherein each of said plurality of medical devices comprises a prosthetic valve.

24. A kit according to claim 23, wherein each of said plurality of medical devices comprises a prosthetic venous valve.

25. A kit according to claim 17, wherein one of said plurality of medical devices comprises a stent and one of said plurality of medical devices comprises a prosthetic valve.