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DEVICE FOR SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS

  • US 20100292783A1
  • Filed: 05/13/2009
  • Published: 11/18/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device for implanting a prosthetic heart valve at an implantation site, the device including:

  • a shaft having a distal end adapted to couple to the prosthetic heart valve and maintain the valve in a collapsed configuration;

    an illuminator selectively adjustable to provide a variable lighting field, the illuminator coupled at or near the distal end of the shaft;

    an optical fiber extending through at least a portion of the shaft, the optical fiber having a proximal end extending from a proximal end of the shaft and a distal end coupled to the illuminator, the optical fiber is adapted to transmit the lighting field from the illuminator to the distal end of the shaft; and

    an actuator coupled to the illuminator and adapted to effect a change to the variable lighting field.

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