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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2014
Mitralign, Inc., Tewksbury, MA (US);
John Alexander, Pinehurst, NC (US);
Megan Holmes, Nashua, NH (US);
Richard D. Hudson, Seabrook, NH (US);
Christopher Lee, Tewksbury, MA (US);
Steven D. Cahalane, Pelham, NH (US);
MITRALIGN, INC., Tewksbury, MA (US);
Abstract
The present teachings provide devices and methods of locating a mitral valve commissure, and implanting tissue anchors at or near the mitral valve commissure. Specifically, one aspect of the present teachings provides devices and methods for locating a mitral valve commissure percutaneously and allowing a guide wire to be placed across a mitral annulus at the mitral valve commissure. Another aspect of the present teachings provides methods for deploying a tissue anchor across a mitral annulus at a mitral valve commissure, including near the Por Pregions of the posterior mitral annulus. Another aspect of the present teachings further provides methods of plicating a mitral annulus between two or more tissue anchors.