Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device and method for transcatheter heart valve repair under triangular resection technique
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Application No.: US15541722Application Date: 2016-01-08
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Publication No.: US10702252B2Publication Date: 2020-07-07
- Inventor: Enrico Pasquino , Marcio Scorsin
- Applicant: Epygon
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: Epygon
- Current Assignee: Epygon
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agent Andre Roland S.A.; Nikolaus Schibli
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@4b58c668 com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@3b7b3059
- International Application: PCT/IB2016/050081 WO 20160108
- International Announcement: WO2016/113649 WO 20160721
- Main IPC: A61B17/00
- IPC: A61B17/00 ; A61B17/072 ; A61B17/295 ; A61B17/29

Abstract:
Medical device for transcatheter heart valve repair comprising a grasping tweezer (1) and a plicating tweezer (2), said grasping tweezer (1) being adapted to grasp a leaflet rim (3) and said plicating tweezer (2) comprising two rotatable flaps (4,5) and a central shaft (6) around which said flaps (4,5) may rotate in a “butterfly manner”, in such a way that the plicating tweezer (2) may adopt a closed or an open configuration. The invention also relates to a method for using this medical device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180000473A1 Device and Method for Transcatheter Heart Valve Repair under Triangular Resection Technique Public/Granted day:2018-01-04
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