METHODS OF PACKAGING AND DELIVERING PROSTHETIC HEART VALVES

    公开(公告)号:US20170296338A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-19

    申请号:US15639646

    申请日:2017-06-30

    CPC classification number: A61F2/2427 A61F2/0095 A61F2/2412

    Abstract: An improved holder and storage system for prosthetic heart valves that pre-shields or pre-constricts the commissure posts of the valve to prevent suture looping. Pre-shielding and pre-constriction mean at the time of manufacture, so that the valves are stored with the commissure posts shielded and/or constricted. The holders may have solid legs that directly contact and constrict and hold the commissure posts without the use of sutures in tension that might creep over the time in storage. The holder may have a base in contact with the inflow end and a shaft portion that projects through the valve leaflets and cooperates with movable legs on the outflow end of the valve in contact with the commissure posts. The holders may, alternatively, have flexible leg members that extend through the valve and have distal end portions configured to extend over and shield the tips of commissure posts.

    Holders for prosthetic heart valves

    公开(公告)号:US09693862B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-07-04

    申请号:US13948923

    申请日:2013-07-23

    CPC classification number: A61F2/2427 A61F2/0095 A61F2/2412

    Abstract: An improved holder and storage system for prosthetic heart valves that pre-shields or pre-constricts the commissure posts of the valve to prevent suture looping. Pre-shielding and pre-constriction mean at the time of manufacture, so that the valves are stored with the commissure posts shielded and/or constricted. The holders may have solid legs that directly contact and constrict and hold the commissure posts without the use of sutures in tension that might creep over the time in storage. The holder may have a base in contact with the inflow end and a shaft portion that projects through the valve leaflets and cooperates with movable legs on the outflow end of the valve in contact with the commissure posts. The holders may, alternatively, have flexible leg members that extend through the valve and have distal end portions configured to extend over and shield the tips of commissure posts.

    Methods of implanting a prosthetic heart valve
    39.
    发明授权
    Methods of implanting a prosthetic heart valve 有权
    植入假体心脏瓣膜的方法

    公开(公告)号:US08858621B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-10-14

    申请号:US13918509

    申请日:2013-06-14

    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns embodiments and methods of use of an introducer that is adapted to facilitate insertion of a prosthetic device, such as a prosthetic heart valve, into a patient's vasculature. In one embodiment, the introducer comprises an elongated body defining a central lumen extending between distal and proximal ends of the body. The introducer body can also have a longitudinally extending gap extending along the length of the body between the distal end proximal ends. The gap in the introducer allows a user to place the introducer around implant sutures by passing the sutures through the gap and into the central lumen. Similarly, the gap allows the introducer to be easily removed from the sutures and/or a delivery device by passing them outwardly through the gap.

    Abstract translation: 本公开涉及使用导引器的实施例和方法,所述导引器适于便于将假体装置(例如假体心脏瓣膜)插入患者的脉管系统中。 在一个实施例中,导引器包括限定在主体的远端和近端之间延伸的中心腔的细长主体。 导引器主体还可以具有沿主体的长度在远端近端之间延伸的纵向延伸的间隙。 引导器中的间隙允许使用者通过使缝线穿过间隙并进入中心腔而将引入器放置在植入物缝合线周围。 类似地,间隙允许导引器通过将其向外通过间隙而从缝线和/或输送装置中容易地移除。

    SIDE-ENTRY KNOTLESS SUTURE ANCHORING CLAMPS AND DEPLOYMENT TOOLS
    40.
    发明申请
    SIDE-ENTRY KNOTLESS SUTURE ANCHORING CLAMPS AND DEPLOYMENT TOOLS 有权
    侧进式无缝安装夹具及配件工具

    公开(公告)号:US20130282028A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-24

    申请号:US13920983

    申请日:2013-06-18

    Abstract: Suture locking clamps for securing prostheses such as heart valves or annuloplasty rings with sutures and without 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.

    Abstract translation: 用于固定假体(例如心脏瓣膜或带有缝线和瓣环的瓣环成形术环)的缝合线锁定件提高了植入的容易性。 夹具具有相对的夹具半部,该半部由通向一侧的狭槽分开,并被诸如一个或多个C形夹弹簧的偏置构件包围。 缝合线横向穿过狭槽,狭槽由位于夹子半部之间的保持构件保持打开。 锁定夹具沿着缝合线滑动到适当位置,调节缝合线的张力,并且移除保持构件以允许偏置构件将缝合线夹在夹具半部之间。 用于传送和展开锁定夹具的输送工具在堆叠中的输送管内包含多个夹具,并且为了安全而将其粘合在一起并具有公共保持构件。 该工具在一侧具有用于进入缝合线的纵向通道。

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