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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2016
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Mark Krans, Hopkins, MN (US);
Theodore Paul Dale, Corcoran, MN (US);
Andrea N. Para, St. Louis, MO (US);
Mathias Charles Glimsdale, St. Michael, MN (US);
Thomas M. Benson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Peter N. Braido, Wyoming, MN (US);
St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A prosthetic heart valve having an inflow end and an outflow end includes a stent having a collapsed condition, an expanded condition, and a plurality of cells arranged in circumferential rows. The stent may include one or more securement features. One securement feature may be an anchor arm having a body portion and a free end extending from the body portion, the body portion being coupled to a perimeter of one of the plurality of cells, with the free end extending toward the inflow end in an expanded condition of the anchor arm. Another securement feature may include a flange formed of a braided mesh and having a body portion coupled to the stent and a flared portion adjacent the inflow end of the prosthetic heart valve. A valve assembly is disposed within the stent and has a plurality of leaflets.