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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2014
Applicant:
The Medical Research, Infrastructure and Health Services Fund of the Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, IL;
Inventor:
Gad Keren, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61F 2/95 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/243 (2013.01); A61F 2/2409 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2436 (2013.01); A61F 2002/9517 (2013.01); A61F 2230/001 (2013.01); A61F 2230/008 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0065 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0078 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0093 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of replacing a native cardiac valve with a prosthetic cardiac valve, the method comprising: expanding a wire mesh scaffolding in a chamber of the heart on a retrograde side of the native cardiac valve; while the scaffolding is expanded on the retrograde side of the valve positioning the prosthetic cardiac valve at the site of the native cardiac valve; expanding the prosthetic cardiac valve to replace the native cardiac valve; and collapsing the scaffolding to a collapsed state and removing the collapsed scaffolding from the chamber of the heart.