Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods of delivery of flexible heart valves
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Application No.: US14466912Application Date: 2014-08-22
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Publication No.: US09861479B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: Brian S. Conklin
- Applicant: Brian S. Conklin
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Current Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agent Guy Cumberbatch; Pui Tong Ho
- Main IPC: A61F2/24
- IPC: A61F2/24

Abstract:
A prosthetic heart valve can include a valve frame having a wireform portion and a stent portion. The wireform and stent portions can be undetachably coupled together via a plurality of upright struts so as to form a one-piece prosthetic heart valve frame. Alternatively, a self-expanding wireform portion and a balloon-expandable stent portion can be coupled together via one or more leaflets and a subassembly having a flexible leaflet support stent and a sealing ring. The wireform portion can include cusps and commissures configured to support a plurality of leaflets. The prosthetic valve can be radially collapsible for minimally invasive and/or transcatheter delivery techniques. Disclosed embodiments can also provide flexion of the wireform portion (e.g., of the commissures) in response to physiologic pulsatile loading when the valve is implanted in a patient's native valve annulus. Methods of making and using prosthetic heart valves are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140364943A1 METHODS OF DELIVERY OF FLEXIBLE HEART VALVES Public/Granted day:2014-12-11
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