US 12,257,149 B2
Suture deployment of prosthetic heart valve
Arvin T. Chang, Yorba Linda, CA (US); Yair A. Neumann, Moshav Sede Varburg (IL); Gil Senesh, Adi (IL); Hernan Altman, Kiryat Tivon (IL); Scott Louis Pool, Laguna Hills, CA (US); Hannah Gibson, San Diego, CA (US); Amanda Kristine Anderson White, Mountain View, CA (US); Peter Phong Tran, Irvine, CA (US); and Ly Th Phan, Irvine, CA (US)
Assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/478,083.
Application 16/808,145 is a division of application No. 15/366,959, filed on Dec. 1, 2016, granted, now 10,583,007, issued on Mar. 10, 2020.
Application 18/478,083 is a continuation of application No. 16/808,145, filed on Mar. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,801,138.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/262,307, filed on Dec. 2, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2024/0099844 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2439 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2436 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical device delivery assembly comprising:
an annular stent having a plurality of apices spaced circumferentially around a first an end portion of the stent, wherein the stent is configured to radially expand and axially foreshorten from a first state to a second state and to radially compress and axially elongate from the second state to the first state; and
a delivery apparatus comprising an elongate shaft, a plurality of sleeves, and one or more sutures, wherein the shaft comprises a proximal end portion configured to be disposed outside of a patient's body during an implantation procedure and a distal end portion configured to be disposed inside a patient's body during the implantation procedure, and wherein each of the sleeves comprises a connection portion coupled to the distal end portion of the shaft and a receiving portion releasably coupled to the stent by the one or more sutures;
wherein the delivery apparatus further comprises a suture retention member disposed between and coupling the distal end portion of the shaft and the connection portions of the sleeves.