Pre-formed delivery catheters

A delivery catheter includes a pre-formed and resilient heart-wrapping segment. The segment may have a relaxed span that allows the segment to wrap around a left side of a heart from an anterior epicardial surface to a posterior epicardial surface, when the catheter is advanced along the epicardial...

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Hauptverfasser: CHRISTIE MELISSA GENE TANNER, MCVENES RICK D, GOODE JOHNSON E, SPEAR STANTEN C
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Zusammenfassung:A delivery catheter includes a pre-formed and resilient heart-wrapping segment. The segment may have a relaxed span that allows the segment to wrap around a left side of a heart from an anterior epicardial surface to a posterior epicardial surface, when the catheter is advanced along the epicardial surface, having been inserted from a sub-xiphoid access site.