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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
May. 10, 2023
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Kristen T. Morin, St. Paul, MN (US);
Jay Reimer, Shoreview, MN (US);
Keith T. High, White Bear Lake, MN (US);
Kristopher Henry Vietmeier, Monticello, MN (US);
Tracee Eidenschink, Wayzata, MN (US);
Yousef F. Alkhatib, Edina, MN (US);
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A prosthetic heart valve may include an expandable stent, a cuff attached to an annulus section of the stent, and a plurality of leaflets disposed within an interior region of the stent and attached to at least one of the cuff or the stent. The stent may have a plurality of cells connected to one another in a plurality of annular rows around the stent. The leaflets together may have a coapted position occluding the interior region of the stent and an open position in which the interior region is not occluded. Each leaflet may include a primary leaflet material, as well as features that reinforce specific regions of the leaflet.