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    MINIMALLY-INVASIVE LOW STRAIN ANNULOPLASTY RING
    152.
    发明申请
    MINIMALLY-INVASIVE LOW STRAIN ANNULOPLASTY RING 有权

    公开(公告)号：US20210145581A1

    公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

    申请号：US17159668

    申请日：2021-01-27

    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

    Inventor： Brian S. Conklin ,  Louis A. Campbell ,  Salvador Marquez ,  James R. Yamada ,  Rodolfo Rodriguez ,  Da-Yu Chang ,  Steven M. Ford

    IPC: A61F2/24

    Abstract: A minimally-invasive annuloplasty ring for implant at a mitral annulus. The annuloplasty ring has an inner core member with a C-shaped plan view that generally defines an oval with a major axis and a minor axis, and is symmetric about the minor axis. A posterior portion of the core member bisected by the minor axis has a thicker radial dimension than a pair of free end regions terminating on an anterior side of the core member. The radial thickness smoothly transitions between the posterior portion and the end regions. The inner core member may be covered with a fabric, and is a superelastic metal so that it can be straightened out and delivered through an access tube. The curvatures and thicknesses around the core member are selected so that the strain experienced when straightened does not exceed 7-8%.

    METHODS OF DYNAMIC ANNULOPLASTY RING SIZING
    153.
    发明申请
    METHODS OF DYNAMIC ANNULOPLASTY RING SIZING 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号：US20200345497A1

    公开(公告)日：2020-11-05

    申请号：US16935555

    申请日：2020-07-22

    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

    Inventor： Brian S. Conklin

    IPC: A61F2/24 ,  A61B5/107 ,  A61B5/00

    Abstract: A dynamic, adjustable annuloplasty ring sizer can include an adjustable ring replica, which can be adjusted through a range of sizes corresponding to available prosthetic annuloplasty repair ring sizes. Actuation of an adjustment trigger on a handle portion of the ring sizer can displace tension wires that extend through a malleable shaft and through a plurality of articulating segments that form the ring replica. Displacement of the tension wires causes flexion of the joints between adjacent articulating segments, thereby reducing the overall size of the ring replica. Releasing the tension wires can allow an elastic extension wire to act on the ring replica, enlarging the ring replica to its maximum, at-rest size. In this manner, the appropriate size of annuloplasty ring prosthesis can be determined with a single device, without requiring a plurality of static ring sizers that require individual insertion and placement for the conventional trial-and-error sizing methods.

    METHODS OF SECURING A CARDIAC IMPLANT USING KNOTLESS SUTURE CLAMPS
    155.
    发明申请
    METHODS OF SECURING A CARDIAC IMPLANT USING KNOTLESS SUTURE CLAMPS 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号：US20200253601A1

    公开(公告)日：2020-08-13

    申请号：US16859946

    申请日：2020-04-27

    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

    Inventor： Brian S. Conklin ,  Louis A. Campbell ,  Salvador Marquez ,  Donakj E. Bobo, JR.

    IPC: A61B17/04 ,  A61F2/24

    Abstract: Suture locking clamps for securing prostheses such as heart valves or annuloplasty rings with sutures and without using knots improve the ease of implantation. The clamps have opposed clamp halves separated by a slot opening to one side and surrounded by a biasing member such as one or more C-clip springs. Sutures pass laterally into the slot which is held open by a retention member positioned between the clamp halves. The locking clamp slides along the sutures into position, the tension of the sutures is adjusted, and the retention member removed to allow the biasing member to clamp the sutures between the clamp halves. A delivery tool used to deliver and deploy the locking clamps contains a number of clamps within a delivery tube in a stack and bonded together for safety and a common retention member. The tool has a longitudinal channel on one side for entry of sutures.

    Prosthetic valve holders with automatic deploying mechanisms
    156.
    发明授权
    Prosthetic valve holders with automatic deploying mechanisms 有权

    公开(公告)号：US10463485B2

    公开(公告)日：2019-11-05

    申请号：US15481283

    申请日：2017-04-06

    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

    Inventor： Brian S. Conklin ,  Michael C. Murad

    IPC: A61F2/24

    Abstract: A valve holder for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to an implant site is in various embodiments configured to reduce or eliminate the occurrence of suture looping or other damage to the prosthetic valve during implantation. The valve holder can be configured to deploy or actuate automatically when performing preparatory steps that are already familiar to practitioners, such as attaching a delivery handle to the valve holder, so that the valve holders will not require additional steps or training to use. Therefore, operation of the valve holders is kept simple, and occurrences of mistakes caused by user error can be minimized or reduced. Valve holders according to different embodiments can be designed to accommodate implantation of prosthetic heart valves from either the inflow end or the outflow end of the native valve annulus.

    METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AND REPLACING IMPLANTED HEART VALVES
    157.
    发明申请
    METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AND REPLACING IMPLANTED HEART VALVES 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号：US20190167422A1

    公开(公告)日：2019-06-06

    申请号：US16270849

    申请日：2019-02-08

    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

    Inventor： Jessica Guttenberg ,  Da-Yu Chang ,  Derrick Johnson ,  Brian S. Conklin ,  Qinggang Zeng ,  Myron Howanec, JR. ,  Grace Myong Kim

    IPC: A61F2/24

    Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve configured to replace a native heart valve and for post-implant expansion and having a valve-type indicator thereon visible from outside the body post-implant. The indicator communicates information about the valve, such as the size or orifice diameter of the valve, and/or that the valve has the capacity for post-implant expansion. The indicator can be an alphanumeric symbol or other symbol or combination of symbols that represent information about the characteristics of the valve such as the valve size. The capacity for post-implant expansion facilitates a valve-in-valve procedure, where the valve-type indicator conveys information to the surgeon about whether the implanted valve is suitable for the procedure and informs the choice of the secondary valve.

    LIMITED EXPANSION HEART VALVE
    158.
    发明申请
    LIMITED EXPANSION HEART VALVE 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号：US20190021854A1

    公开(公告)日：2019-01-24

    申请号：US16141604

    申请日：2018-09-25

    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

    Inventor： Brian S. Conklin ,  Da-Yu Chang

    IPC: A61F2/24

    Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve configured to replace a native heart valve and having a support frame configured to be reshaped into an expanded form in order to receive and/or support an expandable prosthetic heart valve therein is disclosed, together with methods of using same. Interlocking members or flexible loops are included to limit expansion of the valve to one or two valve sizes, for example, with a 2-mm gap between each valve size. The valve may include an internal structural band with overlapped free ends having structure for limiting expansion, or external loops of suture may be added to the fabric covering which limits expansion.

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