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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mark Dolan, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/2445 (2013.01); A61F 2/2466 (2013.01); A61F 2/2442 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0016 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0004 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0006 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0008 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0019 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0026 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0048 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0096 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for stabilizing a cardiac valve annulus is provided. The method includes intravascularly delivering a prosthesis to a region of a cardiac valve, expanding the prosthesis to secure the prosthesis to the region of the cardiac valve, and reducing the inner diameter of the prosthesis to form the region of the cardiac valve into a predefined shape.