IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE HAVING A LINKER AND METHODS THEREOF

Abstract

Embodiments described herein include a modular transcatheterly implantable medical device. The medical device includes a plurality of assemblable blood pumps. Each one of the blood pumps includes a pump unit and an electrical wire configured for the pump unit to be electrically operated through the electrical wire. The medical device also includes an anchor having a first end portion and a second end portion, and the anchor is configured to intraluminally assemble to and intraluminally unassemble from the blood pumps. The medical device also includes a catheter. The catheter is configured to be in a slidable relationship with each one of the electrical wires for intraluminally assembling the blood pumps to the anchor and for intraluminally unassembling the blood pumps from the anchor. The medical device further includes a flexible linker configured to couple the catheter and the anchor.

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