摘要 |
<p>An artificial heart valve (10) of turbine-like construction includes a rotor that translates and rotates about central axis (17) to cause a plurality of rotor blades (36) to either occlude or unocclude spaces between adjacent ones of a plurality of stator blades (12, 14) all fixedly connected at their proximal ends to a central stator hub (16) with stator blades (14) connected at their distal ends to a rigid orifice ring (18) carrying a suture ring (32). </p> |