Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Arie Tylis

Eran Goldberg

Amir Blumenfeld

Boaz Manash

Dan Rottenberg

Hernan Altman

Dikla Kersh

Danny M Garmahi

Hagar Adika

Tal Regev

David Maimon

Nikolay Gurovich

Ralph Schneider

Hengchu Cao

Liron Tayeb

Eitan Atias

Mohammad Jafari

Adi Carmi

Assaf Bash

Tomer Saar

Dustin P Armer

Michael G Valdez

Ofir Witzman

Eason Michael Abbott

Michael D Franklin

Nikolai Gurovich

John Joseph Desrosiers

Noa Axelrod

Anatoly Dvorsky

Daniel James Murray

An expandable docking station includes an annular valve seat having an end, an annular outer wall comprising struts disposed around the valve seat, and links that connect the end of the annular valve seat to the annular outer wall. Each of the links extends from the struts of the annular outer wall directly toward a longitudinal axis that runs longitudinally through a center of the docking station, and to a corresponding one of a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially extending legs at least partially defining the annular valve seat. The outer wall is configured to conform to an interior shape of a blood vessel, when expanded inside the blood vessel, such that the outer wall can expand in multiple locations to conform to multiple bulges of the blood vessel and can contract in multiple locations to conform to multiple narrowed regions of the blood vessel.

Docking stations for transcatheter valves

An anchoring system and related methods are provided for treatment of dilated hearts and of functional valve regurgitation, the system comprising one or more self-expandable or manually expandable anchors and associated devices for fixating a valve splint within the heart. For example, a spade-shaped assembly may be configured to be deployed in a right ventricle of the heart and to stabilize a puncturing instrument to puncture the septum. Various puncturing instruments may also be part of the anchoring system, including one or more of a flexible needle having a multiplicity of slits disposed along the length of the needle, a trocar catheter with a retractable head, and a catheter needle having a blunt introducer to protect nearby tissue within the heart during advancing a guidewire. A cutter catheter and puncture location catheter may also be part of the system and be used during treatment.

Systems and devices for setting an anchor

Docking stations for transcatheter valves are described. The docking stations can include an expandable frame, at least one sealing portion, and a valve seat. The expandable frame can be configured to conform to an interior shape of a portion of the circulatory system when expanded inside the circulatory system. The sealing portion can be configured to contact an interior surface of the circulatory system to create a seal. The valve seat can be connected to the expandable frame and can be configured to support an expandable transcatheter valve. The docking stations are adaptable to different anatomies/locations to allow implantation of a transcatheter valve in a variety of anatomies/locations.

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