Covered heart valve sizer
    71.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11166819B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-09

    申请号:US15899355

    申请日:2018-02-19

    IPC分类号: A61F2/24 A61B5/107

    摘要: A heart valve sizer and sizer cover are provided for determining the size of a heart valve annulus. The valve sizer can include a handle, a shaft extending distally from the handle, a sizing element coupled to the distal end of the shaft, the sizing element being movable between a first retracted position and a second expanded position, and a sizer cover. The sizer cover can be formed from a continuous sheet of material configured to surround at least a portion of the sizing element of the heart valve sizer so as to guard against entanglement of the sizing element with structures of a human heart.

    Methods of identifying and replacing implanted heart valves

    公开(公告)号:US11154394B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-26

    申请号:US16270849

    申请日:2019-02-08

    IPC分类号: A61F2/24

    摘要: 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.

    IMPLANT HOLDER ASSEMBLY WITH ACTUATOR FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20210259841A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-26

    申请号:US17244435

    申请日:2021-04-29

    IPC分类号: A61F2/24

    摘要: An articulating implant holder system for heart valve repair or replacement has an implant configured to be secured to a heart valve annulus, an implant holder secured to the implant, an articulating handle assembly comprising a handle, a swivel pivotably secured to the handle at a first location and a connector pivotably secured to the swivel at a second location, an actuating cable secured between the handle and the connector to cause the swivel to move from a first position to a second position, and a latch removably secured to the implant holder. A plurality of sizer heads are configured to correspond to different sizes of heart valve annuluses and each of the plurality of sizer heads has a latching feature. A latching feature of the swivel is configured to removably snap on to the latching feature of each of the plurality of sizer heads and is configured to permanently snap on to the latch.

    Methods for anchoring a device at a native heart valve annulus

    公开(公告)号:US10849752B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US16297187

    申请日:2019-03-08

    发明人: Brian S. Conklin

    IPC分类号: A61F2/24 A61F2/02

    摘要: A method and device for anchoring a prosthetic heart valve or annuloplasty ring to a valve annulus in a heart and a method of implanting same is disclosed. The device can include a prosthetic valve or annuloplasty ring with one or more anchors configured to be threaded or otherwise passed underneath a native leaflet and/or subvalvular tissue to secure the device at the native annulus.

    COLLAPSIBLE-EXPANDABLE HEART VALVES
    75.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200368014A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-26

    申请号:US16989826

    申请日:2020-08-10

    发明人: Brian S. Conklin

    IPC分类号: A61F2/24

    摘要: 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.

    HYBRID HEART VALVES ADAPTED FOR POST-IMPLANT EXPANSION

    公开(公告)号:US20200323633A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-15

    申请号:US16914255

    申请日:2020-06-26

    IPC分类号: A61F2/24

    摘要: A hybrid prosthetic heart valve configured to replace a native heart valve and having a support frame configured to be expanded post implant in order to receive and/or support an expandable prosthetic heart valve therein (a valve-in-valve procedure). The prosthetic heart valve may be configured to have a generally rigid and/or expansion-resistant configuration when initially implanted to replace a native valve (or other prosthetic heart valve), but to assume a generally expanded form when subjected to an outward force such as that provided by a dilation balloon or other mechanical expander. An inflow stent frame is expandable for anchoring the valve in place, and may have an outflow end that is collapsible for delivery and expandable post-implant to facilitate a valve-in-valve procedure.

    Methods of implanting a cardiac implant with integrated suture fasteners

    公开(公告)号:US10314706B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-11

    申请号:US15625801

    申请日:2017-06-16

    IPC分类号: A61F2/24 A61B17/04 A61B17/02

    摘要: A cardiac implant system including a cardiac implant such as an annuloplasty ring, a prosthetic heart valve, or a valved conduit pre-assembled at the time of manufacture with devices for securing the implant to a heart valve annulus using knotless suture fasteners. The knotless suture fasteners may be embedded within a pliant sealing edge of the cardiac implant, or they may be positioned adjacent to the sealing edge. The knotless suture fasteners are spring-biased so as to grip onto annulus anchoring sutures pass to therethrough upon removal of a restraining device, such as a hypotube inserted within the suture fasteners. Guide tubes are assembled in line with the suture fasteners to permit introduction of suture snares that pass through the suture fasteners and through the sealing edge to facilitate capture of the pre-installed annulus anchoring sutures.