Medtronic, Inc.

George N Hallak

Yogesh Darekar

Jean-Pierre Dueri

Finn Olavi Rinne

Elliot J Howard

Cahal Mcveigh

Priya Nair

Brenda L McIntire

Grant A Menon

Yogesh A Darekar

Brenda L Mcintire

An assembly including a transcatheter valve prosthesis and a leaflet folding accessory configured for use when compressing the transcatheter valve prosthesis into the crimped configuration. The transcatheter valve prosthesis includes a stent and a prosthetic valve component including at least one leaflet disposed within and secured to the stent. The transcatheter valve prosthesis has a crimped configuration for delivery within a vasculature and an expanded configuration for deployment within a native heart valve. The leaflet folding accessory includes a plurality of guide fingers. Each guide finger is configured to contact the prosthetic valve component and hold the at least one leaflet in a predetermined configuration when the transcatheter valve prosthesis is compressed into the crimped configuration.

Mechanical guides for controlling leaflet folding behavior during crimping

The devices and methods of this disclosure relate to a heart valve prosthesis that is configured to be implanted within a native heart valve having a smaller perimeter annuli with a generally elliptical shape.

Compact prosthetic heart valve device

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Costa Mesa, CA, United States of America

George N Hallak