Patent ID: 9408735
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: A61F,A61M,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method of implanting a prosthesis in a patient at a treatment site, comprising the steps of: a) advancing an outer catheter of a prosthesis delivery system in the patient distal to the treatment site, wherein the treatment site is a curved portion of the aortic arch; b) advancing an inner sheath, and a curved guidewire lumen of the delivery system from the outer catheter through the curved portion of the aortic arch along a guidewire while the outer catheter remains stationary relative to the patient, wherein the proximal end of the prosthesis is fixed longitudinally and rotationally relative to the curved guidewire lumen, whereby advancement of the inner sheath and the curved guidewire lumen through the curved portion of the aortic arch causes rotation of the curved guidewire lumen and the prosthesis to thereby rotationally align the prosthesis within the curved portion of the aortic arch; c) retracting the inner sheath to deploy the prosthesis from within the inner sheath at the curved portion of the aortic arch; and d) retracting the delivery system from the patient.