IMPLANT DELIVERY DEVICE ADAPTED TO BE ATTACHED TO OR INTERCONNECTED WITH A CATHETER, CATHETER AND METHOD

• US 20130103131A1
• Filed: 02/16/2011
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Venus Medtech (Hangzhou), Inc.
• Original Assignee: Transcatheter Technologies Gmbh
• Inventors: Goetz, Wolfgang, Lim, Hou-Sen
• Granted Patent: US 10,390,981 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 623/1.11
• 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 2/2439 Expansion controlled by filaments
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/95 Instruments specially adapted for placement or removal of stents or stent-grafts
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2002/9511 the retaining means being filaments or wires
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2250/006 modular

Abstract

A device is intended to be attached to or interconnected with a medical implant, and intended to be attached to or interconnected with a catheter. The catheter is intended for implanting the implant.

Claims

1. A device intended to be attached to or interconnected with a medical implant, and intended to be attached to or interconnected with a catheter, the catheter being intended for implanting the implant.

2. A device according to claim 1, detachably comprising the implant.

3. A device according to claim 2, wherein the implant is foldable and/or unfoldable, the implant comprising first folding and/or unfolding means for folding and/or unfolding the implant.

4. A device according to claim 3, wherein the first folding and/or unfolding means comprises one or more strings or consists thereof.

5. A device according to claim 1, comprising attaching or interconnecting means for being attached or interconnected to a catheter.

6. A device according to claim 1, being a catheter tip.

7. A catheter suited for receiving at least one device according to claim 1.

8. A catheter according to claim 7 comprising at least one device according to claim 1.

9. A catheter according to claim 7 comprising attaching or interconnecting means for being attached to or interconnected with a device according to claim 1.

10. A catheter according to claim 1 comprising second folding and/or unfolding means for being interconnected with or attached to the first folding and/or unfolding means of the implant.

11. A method of providing a delivery implement with an implant before implantation, the method comprising the step:

attaching or fixing a device according to claim 1 comprising an implant onto a delivery implement.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein the device is attached or fixed to the delivery implement in the operation room.