发明名称 Collapsible prosthetic heart valves
摘要 A prosthetic heart valve includes an annularly collapsible and re-expandable supporting structure extending between an inflow end and an outflow end and including a plurality of struts and a plurality of posts, each post having an elongated opening, a plurality of leaflets disposed inside the supporting structure and operative to allow flow in a first direction from the inflow end to the outflow end and to substantially block flow in an opposite direction from the outflow end to the inflow end, each of the plurality of leaflets including flaps, and a first patch covering the opening of a first post, the first patch being attached to a first flap of a first leaflet.
申请公布号 US9636221(B2) 申请公布日期 2017.05.02
申请号 US201615088535 申请日期 2016.04.01
申请人 St. Jude Medical, Inc. 发明人 Braido Peter N.;McCarthy Andrea L.;Figueiredo Rubem L.;Schraut Julia A.
分类号 A61F2/24;A61F2/89 主分类号 A61F2/24
代理机构 Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP 代理人 Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
主权项 1. A prosthetic heart valve comprising: an annularly collapsible and re-expandable supporting structure extending between an inflow end and an outflow end and including a plurality of struts and a plurality of posts, each post having an elongated opening; a plurality of leaflets disposed inside the supporting structure and operative to allow flow in a first direction from the inflow end to the outflow end and to substantially block flow in an opposite direction from the outflow end to the inflow end, each of the plurality of leaflets including flaps; and a first patch covering the opening of a first post, the first patch being attached to a first flap of a first leaflet via a suture extending orthogonal to the first patch, the first patch being disposed radially outward of the first flap.
地址 St. Paul MN US