Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tissue anchors and percutaneous tricuspid valve repair using a tissue anchor
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Application No.: US14662203Application Date: 2015-03-18
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Publication No.: US10010315B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Steven Cahalane , Jason Robinson , Morgan House
- Applicant: Mitralign, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Tewksbury
- Assignee: Mitralign, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Mitralign, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Tewksbury
- Agency: Leason Ellis LLP
- Main IPC: A61B17/04
- IPC: A61B17/04 ; A61F2/24 ; A61B17/064 ; A61B17/02 ; A61B17/00 ; A61B17/22 ; A61B90/00

Abstract:
The present teachings provide devices and methods of treating a tricuspid valve regurgitation. Specifically, one aspect of the present teachings provides devices and methods of identifying a suitable location on the tricuspid annulus, placing a wire across the tricuspid annulus at such an identified location, deploying a tissue anchor across such an identified location, deploying two or more tissue anchors and coupling the tissue anchors with a flexible tensioning member, and applying tension to a flexible tensioning member that is coupled with the two or more tissue anchors, plicating tissues between each pair of the two or more tissue anchors, and reducing the circumference of the tricuspid annuls. As a result, a regurgitation jet is reduced or eliminated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160270916A1 Tissue Anchors and Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Repair Using A Tissue Anchor Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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