US 12,186,187 B2
Transcatheter deliverable prosthetic heart valves and methods of delivery
Mark Christianson, Plymouth, MN (US); Robert Vidlund, Forest Lake, MN (US); and Neelakantan Saikrishnan, Plymouth, MN (US)
Assigned to VDyne, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by VDyne, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Mar. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/207,076.
Application 17/207,076 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2019/051615, filed on Sep. 18, 2019.
Application 17/207,076 is a continuation of application No. 16/443,862, filed on Jun. 17, 2019, granted, now 11,273,033.
Application PCT/US2019/051615 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/163,577, filed on Oct. 18, 2018, granted, now 11,071,627.
Application 16/443,862 is a continuation of application No. 16/155,890, filed on Oct. 10, 2018, granted, now 10,321,995.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/777,070, filed on Dec. 8, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/749,121, filed on Oct. 22, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/737,343, filed on Sep. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/766,611, filed on Sep. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0290385 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61F 2/95 (2013.01)
CPC A61F 2/2427 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2409 (2013.01); A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2433 (2013.01); A61F 2/95 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0008 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0016 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0075 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0006 (2013.01); A61F 2230/001 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0039 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for delivering a valve, the method comprising the steps:
advancing a guidewire to a desired location within a body, the guidewire having an outer sheath and an inner shaft;
advancing a delivery catheter over the guidewire to the desired location;
mounting a valve capsule onto a proximal end of the guidewire, the valve capsule containing a valve in a compressed configuration, the valve having a central axis and a distal tension arm extending laterally from the valve, the distal tension arm having a guidewire collar, the guidewire collar having an aperture sized to permit the inner shaft of the guidewire to extend through the aperture and to block the outer sheath of the guidewire from extending, through the aperture;
loading the valve capsule into a proximal, end of the delivery catheter;
advancing the valve in the compressed configuration from the valve capsule into a lumen of the delivery catheter such that the central axis of the valve is perpendicular to a lengthwise axis of the delivery catheter and the distal tension arm is distal to the central axis; and
advancing the valve in the compressed configuration through the lumen of the delivery catheter to the desired, location by advancing the outer sheath of the guidewire over the inner shaft of the guidewire.