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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2019
Valtech Cardio, Ltd., Or Yehuda, IL;
Amir Gross, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, IL;
Tal Sheps, Givat Shmuel, IL;
Tal Hammer, Ramat Gan, IL;
Tal Reich, Moledet, IL;
Ehud Iflah, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, IL;
Valtech Cardio Ltd., Caesarea, IL;
Abstract
An annuloplasty implant is provided for treating a native atrioventricular valve of a patient, the annuloplasty implant including a plurality of tissue anchors, which are configured to anchor the annuloplasty implant around at least a portion of a valve annulus of the native atrioventricular valve. The annuloplasty further includes a contracting assembly, which includes an elongate contracting member; and a contracting mechanism, which is coupled to the elongate contracting member, and which is configured, upon actuation thereof, to apply a longitudinal contracting force to the elongate contracting member that longitudinally contracts at least a portion of the annuloplasty implant, thereby circumferentially tightening the valve annulus. The annuloplasty further includes a force-distributing element, which includes a longitudinally-non-compressible tightly-coiled element, and which is configured to distribute the longitudinal contracting force over at least two of the tissue anchors. Other embodiments are also described.