Stent delivery system having stent securement apparatus

US6203558A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Scimed Life Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Andrew J. Dusbabek · Dayton, US
• Louis Ellis · Sauk Centre, US
• Christopher R. Larson · Windom, US
• Terry V. Brown · Fridley, US
• Charles L. Euteneuer · Saint Michael, US
• Steven P. Mertens · Plymouth, US
• Richard C. Mattison · Corcoran, US
• David J. Blaeser · Brooklyn Park, US
• Linda R. Lorentzen Cornelius · Wayzata, US
• Martin R. Willard · Maple Grove, US
• Fernando Di Caprio · Mendota Heights, US
• Stanley A. Nordin · Monticello, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 14, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 20, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2025/1093
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system/assembly for delivery and deployment of an inflation expandable stent within a vessel, comprising a catheter having proximal and distal ends; a stent, inflation expandable from a delivery diameter to a deployment diameter, such that the delivery diameter is reduced from the deployment diameter for conforming the stent to the catheter, such that the stent, in its delivery diameter, is coaxially mounted on the catheter near the catheter distal end; an expandable inflation member coaxially mounted on the catheter axially within the stent, for expansion of the stent from the delivery diameter to the deployment diameter upon application of fluid deployment pressure to the inflation member; and a securement component coaxially mounted on the catheter, axially within the expandable inflation members, the securement component designed and adapted to provide a securement pressure to the stent in the delivery diameter to maintain the stent in position on the catheter during delivery to the deployment site.