US 12,303,390 B2
Device and method for controlling in-vivo pressure
Dan Rottenberg, Haifa (IL); Ori J. Braun, Palo Alto, CA (US); Avraham Aba Zakay, Zichron-Yaakov (IL); Ascher Shmulewitz, Tel-Aviv (IL); Yoram Rozy, Caesarea (IL); and Gad Keren, Kiryat-Ono (IL)
Assigned to V-Wave Ltd., Caesarea (IL)
Filed by V-Wave Ltd., Caesarea (IL)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/166,771.
Application 15/668,622 is a division of application No. 13/108,672, filed on May 16, 2011, granted, now 9,724,499, issued on Aug. 8, 2017.
Application 17/166,771 is a continuation of application No. 16/878,228, filed on May 19, 2020, granted, now 10,912,645.
Application 16/878,228 is a continuation of application No. 16/672,420, filed on Nov. 1, 2019, granted, now 11,266,501.
Application 16/672,420 is a continuation of application No. 15/668,622, filed on Aug. 3, 2017, granted, now 10,463,490, issued on Nov. 5, 2019.
Application 13/108,672 is a continuation of application No. 10/597,666, granted, now 8,070,708, issued on Dec. 6, 2011, previously published as PCT/IL2005/000131, filed on Feb. 3, 2005.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/573,378, filed on May 24, 2004.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/541,267, filed on Feb. 3, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2021/0154012 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61B 5/0215 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61M 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2442 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0215 (2013.01); A61B 17/00234 (2013.01); A61F 2/24 (2013.01); A61F 2/2493 (2013.01); A61M 27/002 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00243 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00252 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00575 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00592 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00606 (2013.01)] 28 Claims
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1. A method for treating a heart condition, the method comprising:
positioning a distal region of a sheath through a puncture of an atrial septum;
exposing a first section of a shunt out of the sheath to transition the first section from a contracted delivery state to an expanded deployed state within a first atrium;
retracting the shunt and the sheath towards the atrial septum until the first section of the shunt in the expanded deployed state becomes seated against the atrial septum;
further retracting the sheath until a second section of the shunt is exposed from the sheath and transitions from a contracted delivery state to an expanded deployed state within a second atrium to thereby implant the shunt; and
shunting blood via a passageway in the shunt between the first atrium and the second atrium.