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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2013
Applicant:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Inventors:
Philipp Bonhoeffer, London, GB;
Debra Ann Taitague, Orange, CA (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/2427 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2415 (2013.01); A61F 2/2436 (2013.01); A61F 2/2475 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0075 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0054 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0097 (2013.01);
Abstract
A prosthetic valve including a replacement valve having a tubular valve body wall, an expandable stent having a framework with first and second ends, and suturing holding the framework to the valve body at the first and second ends. The suturing at the first end is colored differently from the suturing at the second end.