ARTIFICIAL DEVICE DEPLOYMENT APPARATUS

摘要

Described, in certain aspects of the invention, are apparatuses and methods for deploying artificial devices within the vascular system. One apparatus includes a delivery device having a lumen and a deployment member slidably received within the lumen. This apparatus further includes an artificial device having an anchoring element releasably engaged with the deployment member. Such an apparatus can be percutaneously delivered to a site within a vascular vessel, and thereafter manipulated so that the anchoring element attaches to the vessel wall. The delivery device and deployment member can then be withdrawn from the vessel, whereby the deployment member disengages from the anchoring element, leaving the artificial device implanted in the vessel.

主权项

1. An apparatus for deploying an artificial implant device within a vascular vessel, comprising:
a delivery device having a lumen; at least one elongate deployment member slidably received within said lumen; and an artificial implant device having at least one anchoring element for anchoring the artificial implant device to walls of the vessel, said at least one anchoring element releasably engaged with said at least one deployment member.