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Method and Apparatus Useful for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

  • US 20140018912A1
  • Filed: 01/10/2012
  • Published: 01/16/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2011
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A flexible guide catheter for use in a transvascular aortic valve replacement procedure, the guide catheter defining a substantially tubular delivery lumen through which one or more other functional catheters may be introduced to the site of the aortic valve, wherein the guide catheter comprises flexible material that permits the lumen of the guide catheter to change shape in at least one of the following ways:

  • (i) to collapse in cross-section to a compact form for introduction into the vasculature, and (ii) to distend in cross-section to a distended form to accommodate the size of said functional catheter introduced therethrough.

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