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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2012 Aug 1;81(4):660–665. doi: 10.1002/ccd.24405

Fig. 1. The GSO delivery system.

Fig. 1

A: Device in packaging prior to procedure showing double disc appearance prior to being loaded into the delivery catheter. B: Occluder is submerged in heparinized saline and loaded into delivery system by pushing the gray handling and deployment slider (arrow in C, D) toward the end of the handle. C: Appearance of the delivery system handle prior to device loading. The system is flushed first through the side port. D: Appearance of the delivery system after device loading with the sliding mechanism at the end of the handle. The device is thoroughly flushed again through the side port. The occluder locking mechanism (arrowhead) is not used in these stages. [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com.]