A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
B
A61B 19/00 (2006.01) A61B 17/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2631752
Methods and apparatus for use in repairing an atrioventricular valve in a patient are provided. The methods comprise accessing the patient's atrioventricular valve percutaneously, securing a fastening mechanism to a valve leaflet, and coupling the valve leaflet, while the patient's heart remains beating, to at least one of a ventricular wall adjacent the atrioventricular valve, a papillary muscle, at least one valve chordae, and a valve annulus to facilitate reducing leakage through the valve.
La présente invention concerne des procédés et un appareil destinés à une utilisation dans la réparation d~une valvule auriculo-ventriculaire chez un patient. Les procédés comprennent l~accès par voie percutanée à la valvule auriculo-ventriculaire d~un patient, la fixation d~un mécanisme d~attache à un feuillet de valvule et le couplage de celui-ci, alors que le cAEur du patient bat toujours, à au moins un parmi une paroi ventriculaire adjacente à ladite valvule, un muscle papillaire, au moins une corde de valvule et un anneau de valvule pour faciliter la réduction de la fuite par la valvule.
Crabtree Traves Dean
Smart & Biggar
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