Patent ID: 11877925
Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A method of delivering a docking device to a native valve of a patient's heart, the method comprising:
connecting the docking device to a pusher tool with a line, positioning the docking device and the pusher tool within a delivery catheter;
positioning a distal region of the delivery catheter in an atrium of the heart;
advancing a pusher of the pusher tool distally through the delivery catheter, wherein the pusher pushes the docking device in a first lumen of the delivery catheter;
engaging the line with a rotatable member of the pusher tool;
and rotating the rotatable member of the pusher tool to change the amount of the line extending from the pusher tool.