US 11,931,262 B2
Method and apparatus for transvascular implantation of neo chordae tendinae
Gordon B. Bishop, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Randall T. Lashinski, Windsor, CA (US); and Erik Griswold, Penngrove, CA (US)
Assigned to Pipeline Medical Technologies, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
Filed by Pipeline Medical Technologies, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/153,629.
Application 17/153,629 is a continuation of application No. 15/858,671, filed on Dec. 29, 2017, granted, now 10,925,731.
Application 15/858,671 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/638,176, filed on Jun. 29, 2017, granted, now 9,877,833, issued on Jan. 30, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/441,031, filed on Dec. 30, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0186699 A1, Jun. 24, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2457 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2466 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00243 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00309 (2013.01); A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0406 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0417 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0441 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0443 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0464 (2013.01); A61B 17/0467 (2013.01); A61B 17/0482 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0496 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0016 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0098 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
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1. A method of securing a leaflet anchor to a mitral valve leaflet, comprising:
advancing a catheter into a left atrium;
securing a temporary leaflet connector to the mitral valve leaflet from an atrial side of the mitral valve leaflet; and
after securing the temporary leaflet connector to the mitral valve leaflet, advancing a needle preloaded with the leaflet anchor through the mitral valve leaflet from the atrial side to secure the mitral valve leaflet to a leaflet suture.