Deployment Compensator for Transcatheter Valve Delivery

摘要

This invention relates to a deployment compensator for reducing the expelling force of a compressed transcatheter valve while it is being deployed in a patient in need thereof, and methods of use thereof.

主权项

1. A deployment compensator for deploying a transcatheter prosthetic cardiovascular valve in a patient, which comprises an extension spring connecting an end block to a spring head, the end block sized to remain outside of a valve deployment catheter sheath and having a sheath guide block connected thereto for inserting into an end portion of a valve deployment catheter sheath, said end block and sheath guide block having a push rod aperature for mounting a push rod, the spring head having a spring barrel connected thereto, the spring barrel disposed within the extension spring, and said spring head and spring barrel having a push rod aperture for mounting a push rod.