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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2015
Applicant:
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Inventors:
Chad Joshua Green, Forest Lake, MN (US);
James Michael Forsberg, Bloomington, MN (US);
Assignee:
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/2427 (2013.01); A61F 2/2409 (2013.01); A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01);
Abstract
A valve holder is connectable to a prosthetic valve including a stent having a plurality of commissure posts. The valve includes a base, a plurality of legs extending from the base, and one of several mechanisms for deflecting the plurality of commissure posts radially inward so as to temporarily decrease the overall size of the prosthetic valve.