ANNULOPLASTY AND SUTURE RINGS

摘要

Adjustable, flexible suture rings, tricuspid and tricuspid annuloplasty rings having internal drawstrings that emerge from the rings on the annular faces so that the draw-string knots are out of the bloodstream, the drawstrings being contained in clearly marked channels, the mitral ring having a curved semi-flexible stiffener member in the anterior segment to maintain intertrigonal distance during implanation are disclosed.