Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Medical device for constricting tissue or a bodily orifice, for example a mitral valve
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Application No.: US12899407Application Date: 2010-10-06
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Publication No.: US09744038B2Publication Date: 2017-08-29
- Inventor: Jon Dahlgren , Doug Goertzen , Daniel Gelbart
- Applicant: Jon Dahlgren , Doug Goertzen , Daniel Gelbart
- Applicant Address: CA Burnaby
- Assignee: KARDIUM INC.
- Current Assignee: KARDIUM INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Burnaby
- Agency: Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP
- Main IPC: A61M31/00
- IPC: A61M31/00 ; A61F2/24 ; A61B17/04 ; A61B17/00 ; A61B17/22

Abstract:
A medical apparatus positionable in a cavity of a bodily organ (e.g., a heart) may constrict a bodily orifice (e.g., a mitral valve). The medical apparatus may include tissue anchors that are implanted in the annulus of the orifice. The tissue anchors may be guided into position by an intravascularly or percutaneously deployed anchor guiding frame. Constriction of the orifice may be accomplished by cinching a flexible cable attached to implanted tissue anchors. The medical device may be used to approximate the septal and lateral (clinically referred to as anterior and posterior) annulus of the mitral valve in order to move the posterior leaflet anteriorly and the anterior leaflet posteriorly and thereby improve leaflet coaptation and eliminate mitral regurgitation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110022166A1 MEDICAL DEVICE FOR CONSTRICTING TISSUE OR A BODILY ORIFICE, FOR EXAMPLE A MITRAL VALVE Public/Granted day:2011-01-27
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