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Delivery devices and methods for heart valve repair

  • US 20060025750A1
  • Filed: 07/27/2004
  • Published: 02/02/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A catheter assembly comprising:

  • a guide sheath having a guide sheath axis;

    an elongate device slidably extendable within the guide sheath, the elongate device having an elongate device axis;

    the guide sheath comprising a sheath orientation portion placeable in a chosen shape; and

    the elongate device comprising a device orientation portion placeable in said chosen shape;

    whereby the chosen shape of the sheath and device orientation portions tend to cause the sheath and device orientation portions to assume complementary rotary orientations when the sheath and device orientation portions are axially aligned.

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