Method for delivering a medical device to the heart of a patient

• US 20070225759A1
• Filed: 03/22/2006
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Carag AG
• Original Assignee: Carag AG
• Inventors: Thommen, Daniel, Bernhard, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US11/387,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20070225759A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 606/213
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/0057 Implements for plugging an opening in the wall of a hollow or tubular organ, e.g. for sealing a vessel puncture or closing a cardiac septal defect sutures A61B17/04; closing rectum or urethra near body surface A61F2/0009
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00575 for closure at remote site, e.g. closing atrial septum defects
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00592 Elastic or resilient implements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00597 Implements comprising a membrane
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00606 Implements H-shaped in cross-section, i.e. with occluders on both sides of the opening
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/00623 Introducing or retrieving devices therefor

Abstract

A method is provided for delivering a medical device to the heart of a patient including the steps of providing a medical device such as an occluder; providing a delivery equipment for delivering the medical device to the heart; performing a transthoracic puncture; introducing the delivery equipment and the device through the puncture to a location in the heart; implanting the device within the location; detaching the device from the delivery equipment and removing the delivery equipment from the heart of the patient. This method enables a correction of the ventricular septal defect.

Claims

1. A method for delivering a medical device to the heart of a patient, the method comprising the steps of:

a. providing a medical device;

b. providing a delivery equipment for delivering the medical device to the heart;

c. performing a transthoracic puncture;

d. introducing the delivery equipment and the device through the puncture to a location in the heart;

e. placing the device at the location;

f. detaching the device from the delivery equipment, and

g. removing the delivery equipment from the heart of the patient.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said transthoracic puncture is performed just beside the sternum of the patient.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein a needle is used for said transthoracic puncture which needle is pushed via a right ventricle and a septum of the heart into a left ventricle of the heart.

4. The method according to claim 1 used to correct a ventricular septal defect.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein said device is an occluder.

6. The method according to claim 5 wherein said occluder is an occluder from the group claimed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,488,706, U.S. Pat. No. 6,949,116 and WO 2005/074813.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein a sheath is used for delivering and placing said device.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein said device is opened at said location of the defect.

9. A method for delivering a medical device into a body of a patient, the method comprising the steps of:

a. providing a medical device;

b. providing a delivery equipment for delivering the medical device into the body;

c. performing a transthoracic puncture;

d. introducing the delivery equipment and the device through the puncture to the heart;

e. forwarding the delivery equipment and the device through the heart to a location of treatment;

f. detaching the device from the delivery equipment, and

g. removing the delivery equipment from the heart and the body of the patient.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the medical device is forwarded to a location within the aorta.