Two-part package for medical implant

• US 8,136,659 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2010
• Issued: 03/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sadra Medical, Inc. (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: Salahieh, Amr, Saul, Tom, Geshlider, Robert, Johnson, Andrea, Morejohn, Dwight, Hildebrand, Daniel, Dueri, Jean-Pierre
• Primary Examiner(s): Ackun, Jacob K
• Application Number:
  US12/777,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20100219092A1
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• Field of Search: 206/438, 206/439, 206/363, 206/364, 206/370, 206/205, 206/210, 206/207, 623/3.1
• US Class Current: 206/210
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/0095 Packages or dispensers for prostheses or other implants for intraocular lenses A61F2/1691; for dental surgery A61C19/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/2427 Devices for manipulating or deploying heart valves during implantation
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2/9517 handle assemblies therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 5/04 Packaging single articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 55/16 by irradiation
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/04 Partitions
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 41/04 Threaded or like caps or cap-like covers secured by rotation
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/22 in moist conditions or immersed in liquids

Abstract

The invention provides a two-part package and method of use for a pre-attached medical implant and delivery tool system. The package includes a wet compartment and a dry compartment and allows a pre-attached implant and delivery tool system to be at least partially stored immersed in a fluid in the wet compartment and at least partially stored in the dry compartment. In one embodiment the implant comprises a replacement heart valve, and the heart valve is stored inside the wet compartment while the heart valve delivery tool remains dry in the dry compartment.

Claims

1. A medical implant and delivery tool package comprising:

a wet compartment containing a fluid;

a dry compartment;

an implant at least partially stored inside the wet compartment; and

a delivery tool connected to the implant at least partially stored inside the dry compartment,

wherein the implant comprises a heart valve.

2. The package of claim 1 wherein the heart valve is stored inside the wet compartment.

3. The package of claim 1 further comprising an interface between the dry compartment and the wet compartment.

4. The package of claim 3 wherein the interface comprises a seal to prevent fluid from entering the dry compartment.

5. The package of claim 4 wherein the seal comprises a compression component and a compressing component.

6. The package of claim 4 wherein the delivery tool comprises a device to create a seal.

7. The package of claim 6 wherein the device comprises an inflatably expanding member.

8. The package of claim 6 wherein the device comprises a compression driven expanding member.

9. The package of claim 8 wherein the compression driven expanding member comprises a wedging component.

10. The package of claim 3 wherein the interface comprises a strain relief mechanism.

11. The package of claim 1 wherein the wet compartment comprises at least one component to allow passage of fluid from the wet compartment.

12. The package of claim 1 wherein the implant is substantially centered within the wet compartment.

13. The package of claim 1 wherein the wet compartment comprises an upper housing and a lower housing.

14. The package of claim 13 wherein the wet compartment further comprises a gasket between the upper housing and the lower housing.

15. The package of claim 13 wherein the wet compartment further comprises at least two gaskets between the upper housing and the lower housing.

16. The package of claim 1 wherein the wet compartment has a variable cross-section adapted to control transmission of sterilizing radiation from outside the wet compartment to the medical implant.