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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2016
Applicant:
National University of Singapore, Singapore, SG;
Inventor:
Theodoros Kofidis, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, Singapore, SG;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/2457 (2013.01); A61F 2/24 (2013.01); A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0075 (2013.01);
Abstract
A prosthetic mitral valve designed to resemble a patient's nat-ural mitral valve is provided. The prosthetic mitral valve includes an asym-metrical, flexible ring dimensioned to match a native mitral annulus of a pa-tient, two leaflets suspended from the flexible ring, and at least two sets of cords attached to the leaflets and merging into two bundles to be fabricated using pre-operative three-dimensional imaging technologies.