公开(公告)号：US20180185183A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-05

申请号：US15852574

申请日：2017-12-22

Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.

Inventor： LAURA E. CHRISTAKIS ,  COLBY HARRIS ,  STAN R. GILBERT ,  GERALD FREDRICKSON

IPC: A61F2/95 ,  A61F2/962

Abstract: A method of loading an expandable stent into a delivery device may include positioning a middle portion of the expandable stent in a collapsing fixture including a passage extending therethrough, radially compressing the middle portion of the expandable stent in the passage before any other portion of the expandable stent while a first end of the expandable stent is disposed outside of the passage, moving the collapsing fixture relative to the expandable stent, radially compressing the expandable stent from the middle portion toward the first end of the expandable stent, and inserting the first end of the expandable stent followed by the middle portion of the expandable stent into a distal end of an elongate outer sheath of the delivery device.