Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Jyoti B Rao

Louis A Campbell

Son V Nguyen

August R Yambao

Kevin K Dang

Harvey H Chen

Grace Myong Kim

Bryan A Janish

John Richard Carpenter

Alyssa E Kornswiet

Lisong Ai

Devin D Nguyen

Stephen W Tang

Edward Romero

Meena Francis

Diana Marie Edwards

Devine D Nguyen

Diana Marie George

A tensioning device includes an elongate plunger, a plunger track housing configured to receive the plunger therein at least in part, an elongate tube configured to be coupled to the plunger track housing, and an actuator configured to cause axial translation of at least a portion of the plunger within the plunger track housing.

Controlled suture tensioning

A hybrid heart valve prosthesis that can be quickly and easily implanted during a surgical procedure is provided. The hybrid heart valve includes a substantially non-expandable, non-compressible prosthetic valve member having a peripheral sealing ring and an expandable stent frame projecting from an inflow end, thereby enabling attachment to the annulus without sutures. The stent frame may be plastically-expandable and may have a thin fabric layer covering its entirety as well as secondary sealing structures around its periphery to prevent paravalvular leaking. Other sealing solutions include interactive steps at the time of valve implant to establish seals around the stent and especially between the stent and the sealing ring of the valve member.

Heart valve sealing assemblies

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Brea, CA, United States of America

Jyoti B Rao