Device And A Method For Augmenting Heart Function

摘要

A device, a kit and a method are presented for permanently augmenting the pump function of the left heart. The basis for the presented innovation is an augmentation of the physiologically up and down movement of the mitral valve during each heart cycle. By means of catheter technique, minimal surgery, or open heart surgery implants are inserted into the left ventricle, the mitral valve annulus, the left atrium and adjacent tissue in order to augment the natural up and down movement of the mitral valve and thereby increasing the left ventricular diastolic filling and the piston effect of the closed mitral valve when moving towards the apex of said heart in systole and/or away from said apex in diastole.

主权项

1. An intra-cardiac medical device adapted to enhance intra-cardiac blood circulation of a heart of a patient by assisting left ventricular pump action, said device having
a blood displacement unit adapted to circulate blood from the left ventricle to the aortic valve by displacement of blood in the left atrium and/or left ventricle towards an apex of the heart and/or to said aortic valve by moving a mitral valve during systole along a long axis of the left ventricle towards an apex of said heart and/or during diastole along said long axis away from said apex, thus assisting left ventricular pump action.