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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2011
Devices, systems, and methods for supplementing, repairing or replacing a native heart valve leaflet
John A. Macoviak, La Jolla, CA (US);
Robert T. Chang, Belmont, CA (US);
David A. Rahdert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy R. Machold, Moss Beach, CA (US);
Rick A. Soss, Burlingame, CA (US);
John A. Macoviak, La Jolla, CA (US);
Robert T. Chang, Belmont, CA (US);
David A. Rahdert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy R. Machold, Moss Beach, CA (US);
Rick A. Soss, Burlingame, CA (US);
MVRX, INC., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
An implant for supplementing, repairing, or replacing a native heart valve leaflet or leaflets provides a scaffold, which defines a pseudo-annulus. The implant further has at least two struts in generally oppositely spaced apart positions on the scaffold. The scaffold can be placed in an elastically loaded condition in a heart with the struts engaging tissue at or near the leaflet commissures of a heart valve annulus, to reshape the annulus for leaflet coaptation. The implant further provides a neoleaflet element coupled to the scaffold within pseudo-annulus, to provide a one-way valve function.