Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd.

Edwards Lifesciences Innovation Ltd.

Carmel Peleg

Tal Reich

David Maimon

Tomer Saar

Noam Nir

Alexander Barash

Yuval Zipory

Meir Kutzik

Haim Brauon

Alon Fogel

Yehuda Cohen

Amit Peer

Ben Azouri

Shlomit Chappel-Ram

Disclosed herein is a storage container for an expandable prosthetic heart valve that crimps the valve upon opening the container and removal of the valve from the container. The container includes a housing sized to receive the heart valve in its expanded configuration and a crimping mechanism. The crimping mechanism is incorporated into the container and engages the heart valve so as to operably convert the heart valve from its expanded configuration to its smaller crimped configuration upon opening the container and removing the valve.

Transcatheter heart valve storage container and crimping mechanism

An annuloplasty structure includes a flexible sleeve and an elongate contraction wire. The sleeve has a first sleeve-end-portion, a second sleeve-end-portion, and a circumferential wall that defines a longitudinal lumen between the first and second sleeve-end-portions. The contraction wire has a first wire-end and a second wire-end, the first wire-end being attached to the sleeve at the first sleeve-end-portion. The wire extends, in association with the circumferential wall, from the first sleeve-end-portion to the second sleeve-end-portion. The wire is arranged with respect to the sleeve such that increasing a longitudinal proportion of the wire that is disposed within the lumen longitudinally contracts the sleeve. Other embodiments are also provided.

Contraction of an annuloplasty structure

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