Pre-formed delivery catheters
US8827982B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 28, 2007 |
| Grant date | Sep 9, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 19, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61N1/0587
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A delivery catheter includes a pre-formed and resilient heart-wrapping segment. The segment may have a relaxed span that allows the segment to wrap around a left side of a heart from an anterior epicardial surface to a posterior epicardial surface, when the catheter is advanced along the epicardial surface, having been inserted from a sub-xiphoid access site.
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