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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2015
Strait Access Technologies Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town, ZA;
Michael Alan Cousins, Cape Town, ZA;
Thomas Gerhardt, Cape Town, ZA;
Edward Charles Mudge, Cape Town, ZA;
Jeremy Douglas Jarman, Cape Town, ZA;
Heather Madeleine Coombes, Cape Town, ZA;
Peter Paul Zilla, Cape Town, ZA;
Deon Bezuidenhout, Cape Town, ZA;
Strait Access Technologies Holdings (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town, ZA;
Abstract
The invention provides a heart valve leaflet capture device () comprising a cardiac catheter probe having a proximal end for manipulating the device () and a distal end terminating in a transvalve element (). The transvalve element () is configured to pass through a heart valve generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the catheter and includes two or three leaflet gripping elements (). The leaflet gripping elements () are individually movable by operation of an associated actuating mechanism () between a radially retracted position, in which they are withdrawn with respect to the transvalve element (), and a capture position, in which they diverge outwardly at an acute angle from the transvalve element (). In the capture position, each leaflet gripping element () defines a convergent capture zone that is directed towards the edges of a target valve leaflet and in which the target valve leaflet may be captured.